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pankajchhabra
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How to set the VM OVF Properties from VRO when request initiated from VCAC

Hello,

I would like to pass the VM Custom properties from VRA. For example, lets say I have a Catalog item which requests a VCO Deployment. VCO VM has custom parameters like "vami.hostname" etc. How can I pass these parameters from VCAC?

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Pankaj

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TheITHollow
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You can pass a custom property from the blueprint or add a build profile. Custom Options for vRealize Automation Server Requests | theITHollow

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pankajchhabra
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Thanks for the response.

I am able to get the property in VRO Workflow but then I try to set the property on the VM using "Create/Update Property on VCAC VM", I can see the property update in log -

[2015-08-18 20:43:22.028] [I] Create property vami.hostname : HelloWorld on virtualMachine entity linux09

but the update does not happen on the VM. I have tried VirtualMachine.vami.hostname and vami.hostname for the property name, but no luck.

Please let me know what shall I use as the Property name.

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zebduin
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Are you just trying to extract the hostname in vRO?

If so there are a couple of ways to do this:

First:

the best method would be to declare a variable to vm.name, where vm = the VC:Virtual MAchine object.

For instance If I wanted to pass the string variable of computer name to a script of something in the vRO workflow that expected the machine name in a string format,

I would have an Input Attribute of vm that is set to VC:VirtualMachine

then I would declare a variable:  vmName = vm.name;

I would also use a System.log("VM Name is " +  vmName);  To make sure its returning the proper value.  vmName would be a input attribute so I could use it throughout the workflow.

Second:

If I want to extract a custom property from vRA - most of my workflows have a scriptable task placed at the beginning to extract vRA custom property values

The code looks something like this:

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Here you can see I'm extracting a reserved custom property 'hostname' and a custom property I created: DLA.ApplicationGroup.  This uses the virtualMachineProgerties.get function.

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pankajchhabra
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Thanks vjDUBB for response.

Here is my very simple scenario. I have a VM on which I define some properties say "Master Server Address". I can set these properties when I deploy them from vCenter Web Client or OVFTool.

I can create the blue print properties and create "Master Server Address", so when the user creates the machine by requesting a catalog item, user along with it has passed "Master Server Address". I would this to be applied to the Virtual Machine OVF property that I have created. When the machine powers on, I would like to get this value by using scripts like vmtoolsd --cmd "info-get guestinfo.ovfEnv"

Please let me know if I can set the properties directly on the Virtual Machine or will I need to call a Script like from Linux Guest Agent.