Hello swerly01,

vMA comes with SDK for Perl, vCLI and WebServices.

Once you are done adding your target servers using using vifp() you can get started with playing with scripts on your environment.

Above document of vMA covers all of this information.

For getting started, I would recommend playing with vCLI which are one-liner commands.

VMware Documenatation for vCLI: & A great external reference to getting started:

You may also start playing with a lot of scripts that are in our sample code repository: http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/codecentral

I would also recommend looking into the SDK for Perl if you have familiarity with Perl, its a flexible tool.

Thanks Much,

Nava