Hello Chaz999
Thankls a lot for your sugesstion to follow LucD. It resolved my issues and let me check if my team satisfies with the output.
I have to add the following in the code to get the correct output which was suggested by mitchum in the blog.
There are 2 things to have the script working:
- Remove the global type for vInventory variable -- I didnt tried this but working fine.
- Define the vInventory variable to be a XML object: --- I have to add this before the vInventory variable.
[XML] $vInventory = “”
So here is the script pasted with modifications to import the vc roles.
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function Get-Roles
{
Begin{
$authMgr = Get-View AuthorizationManager
$report = @()
}
Process{
foreach($role in $authMgr.roleList){
$ret = New-Object PSObject
$ret | Add-Member -Type noteproperty -Name “Name” -Value $role.name
$ret | Add-Member -Type noteproperty -Name “Label” -Value $role.info.label
$ret | Add-Member -Type noteproperty -Name “Summary” -Value $role.info.summary
$ret | Add-Member -Type noteproperty -Name “RoleId” -Value $role.roleId
$ret | Add-Member -Type noteproperty -Name “System” -Value $role.system
$ret | Add-Member -Type noteproperty -Name “Privilege” -Value $role.privilege
$report += $ret
}
}
End{
return $report
}
}
function Get-Permissions
{
Begin{
$report = @()
$authMgr = Get-View AuthorizationManager
$roleHash = @{}
$authMgr.RoleList | %{
$roleHash[$_.RoleId] = $_.Name
}
}
Process{
$perms = $authMgr.RetrieveAllPermissions()
foreach($perm in $perms){
$ret = New-Object PSObject
$entity = Get-View $perm.Entity
$ret | Add-Member -Type noteproperty -Name “Entity” -Value $entity.Name
$ret | Add-Member -Type noteproperty -Name “EntityType” -Value $entity.gettype().Name
$ret | Add-Member -Type noteproperty -Name “Group” -Value $perm.Group
$ret | Add-Member -Type noteproperty -Name “Principal” -Value $perm.Principal
$ret | Add-Member -Type noteproperty -Name “Propagate” -Value $perm.Propagate
$ret | Add-Member -Type noteproperty -Name “Role” -Value $roleHash[$perm.RoleId]
$report += $ret
}
}
End{
return $report
}
}
function New-XmlNode{
param($node, $nodeName)
$tmp = $global:vInventory.CreateElement($nodeName)
$node.AppendChild($tmp)
}
function Set-XmlAttribute{
param($node, $name, $value)
$node.SetAttribute($name, $value)
}
function Get-XmlNode{
param($path)
$global:vInventory.SelectNodes($path)
}
[XML]$vInventory = “<Inventory><Roles/><Permissions/></Inventory>”
# Roles
$XMLRoles = Get-XmlNode “Inventory/Roles”
Get-Roles | where {-not $_.System} | % {
$XMLRole = New-XmlNode $XMLRoles “Role”
Set-XmlAttribute $XMLRole “Name” $_.Name
Set-XmlAttribute $XMLRole “Label” $_.Label
Set-XmlAttribute $XMLRole “Summary” $_.Summary
$_.Privilege | % {
$XMLPrivilege = New-XmlNode $XMLRole “Privilege”
Set-XmlAttribute $XMLPrivilege “Name” $_
}
}
# Permissions
$XMLPermissions = Get-XmlNode “Inventory/Permissions”
Get-Permissions | % {
$XMLPerm = New-XmlNode $XMLPermissions “Permission”
Set-XmlAttribute $XMLPerm “Entity” $_.Entity
Set-XmlAttribute $XMLPerm “EntityType” $_.EntityType
Set-XmlAttribute $XMLPerm “Group” $_.Group
Set-XmlAttribute $XMLPerm “Principal” $_.Principal
Set-XmlAttribute $XMLPerm “Propagate” $_.Propagate
Set-XmlAttribute $XMLPerm “Role” $_.Role
}
$vInventory.Save(“C:\vInventory.xml”)
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Thanks a lot to everyone for such a wonderful script.
VK
