I am trying to collect VMware Virtual Machine Inventory data and for that first of all I am creating property collector and will use retrieveProperties() function to get inventory data.
As my script is called at every 15th minutes I am using mor[in our case: session[52f35b59-95f8-56ba-ba32-39c0ef193881]52ec5ed4-5b68-6569-221a-29a71c8c5831] created by createPropertyCollector to get only updates using waitForUpdatesEx() fuction. Now after 4 hours I would destroy that property collector and create a new one to get all data and cycle would be continued.
It is working properly but while destroying that proper collector it is throwing the above error.
To check above workflow I want to create an independent script using SOAP request.
The below script for destroying property collector throws internal Server error.
import urllib2
import cookielib
from xml.dom import minidom
from xml.sax.saxutils import escape, quoteattr
service_url="https://<vc>/sdk"
url="<vc_fqdn>"
username = "<user_name>"
password = "<passwod>"
cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar()
#First we assume the server is 5.x
def _get_service_instance():
cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar()
#this opener is used for all requests to ensure that cookies are handled properly
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
#First we assume the server is 5.x
request_body = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:ns0="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="urn:vim25" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Header/>
<ns0:Body>
<ns1:RetrieveServiceContent>
<ns1:_this xsi:type="ServiceInstance">ServiceInstance</ns1:_this>
</ns1:RetrieveServiceContent>
</ns0:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
"""
request = urllib2.Request(service_url, data=request_body)
request = urllib2.Request(url, data=request_body)
try:
handle = opener.open(request, timeout=15)
if handle.code != 200:
return False
else:
version = "4.1"
except:
return False
#Determine if we are an unmanaged host by inspecting the service instance
service_instance_xml = handle.read()
service_instance_dom = minidom.parseString(service_instance_xml)
session_manager_node = service_instance_dom.getElementsByTagName("sessionManager")[0]
session_manager_moid = session_manager_node.firstChild.data
return opener, version, session_manager_moid
def _login(session_manager_moid, username, password, headers, opener):
request_body = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:ns0="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="urn:vim25" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Header/>
<ns0:Body>
<ns1:Login>
<ns1:_this type="SessionManager">""" + escape(session_manager_moid) + """</ns1:_this>
<ns1:userName>""" + escape(username) + """</ns1:userName>
<ns1:password>""" + escape(password) + """</ns1:password>
</ns1:Login>
</ns0:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
"""
request = urllib2.Request(service_url, data=request_body, headers=headers)
try:
handle = opener.open(request)
print(handle.read())
if handle.code == 200:
return True
else:
return False
except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
print(e)
return False
opener, version, session_manager_moid = _get_service_instance()
if version == "5.x":
headers = {'SOAPAction': u'"urn:vim25/5.1"', 'Soapaction': u'"urn:vim25/5.1"', 'Content-Type': 'text/xml; charset=utf-8', 'Content-type': 'text/xml; charset=utf-8'}
else:
headers = {'SOAPAction': u'"urn:vim25/4.1"', 'Soapaction': u'"urn:vim25/4.1"', 'Content-Type': 'text/xml; charset=utf-8', 'Content-type': 'text/xml; charset=utf-8'}
_login(session_manager_moid, username, password, headers, opener)
try:
request_body = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:ns0="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="urn:vim25" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Header/>
<ns0:Body>
<ns1:DestroyPropertyCollector>
<ns1:_this type="PropertyCollector">session[52f35b59-95f8-56ba-ba32-39c0ef193881]52ec5ed4-5b68-6569-221a-29a71c8c5831</ns1:_this>
</ns1:DestroyPropertyCollector>
</ns0:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
"""
request = urllib2.Request(service_url, data=request_body, headers=headers)
handle = opener.open(request)
print(handle.read())
except Exception as e:
print(e)
Please help me to create SOAP request for creating property collector and destroying it.
