Uninstall Plguin (dar)

[pacharya46]

Hi 

As we make changes in our plugin and deploy in VRA, it is quite challenging to manually clean up(https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/7.4/com.vmware.vrealize.orchestrator-use-plugins.doc/...) and install same version again and again. Is there a simple way/script to delete the packages/actions/workflow so that i have some script to invoke the clean up actions

Thanks Prakash

[daphnissov]

Your best option is to snapshot vRO prior to installing your version. Revert the snapshot when you want to "uninstall" that version and you don't have to deal with clean-up.

[pacharya46]

Thanks for the details.

As some customers also want to verify our early drop, I think we cannot ask customer to have snapshot and use it

Thanks Prakash

[daphnissov]

Unfortunately, there's really not a better way at this time. There has always been very little attention paid to proper plug-in removal and clean-up, unfortunately. The only thing I can recommend is that each subsequent version of your plug-in have routines that allow the prior version(s) to be scrubbed in a comprehensive way. Other than that, snapshot reversion is going to give you the most "clean" state but may be undesired for an embedded vRO.

[pacharya46]

I agree and feedback is much appreciated.

[iiliev]

To make developer's life easier during development phase, you can set the installation mode element in your plug-in's manifest file vso.xml to "always".

<installation mode="always">

      <action ... />

</installation>

The value of this element can be set either by build scripts or manually, depending on how the vso.xml file for your plug-in is managed.

Setting mode to "always" should force the plug-in package to be installed during every server startup. That is, to deploy a newer build of your plug-in, you just need to copy the plug-in DAR file to the vRO server (either by copying the file manually to proper location, or installing it via API/UI), and then restart vRO server.

[pacharya46]

Thanks for feedback. Let me try and confirm