Creating VC: objects
What syntax is used to manually define objects such as VC:HostSystem and VC:VmFolder? I am having trouble finding information regarding manually setting these. I imagine its something along the lines...
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vCO and JSON
A plan of mine when I started building a vCO environment was to integrate it with Puppet, so when we built VMs we could define configuration information that Puppet could use to build the system. This...
View ArticleVCAC 6.1 plugin on VCO 5.5.1
I am having an issue with the vCloud Automation Center plugin will not load in VCO... vCloud Automation Center 6.1.0.2073620 Will perform installation at next server startup. This will not go away...
View ArticleCopy an AD user account template?
Hi All, I'm interested in creating a AD user provisioning workflow. As part of that process, I would like to copy a template user account to create the new account. Has anyone else done this or have...
View ArticlevCOPS - vCenter Operations Manager API via the REST plugin. Anyone doing this?
I would like to make some calls to the vCenter Operations Manager API (since VMware has no plugin for this). I am not interested in receiving the messages via snmp and reacting to them. I want to...
View ArticleHide string value when it's being converted from a securestring
Hello all, I am struggling to find an appropiate way of dealing with the conversion between securestrings and strings.As you all know, a lot of vCO workflows deal with credentials (users/passwords),...
View ArticlevCO 5.5 Webview - Exception occurred expanding AD
Greetings, vCO 5.5 Applicance using the lastest AD Plug-in 4 connecting to AD via LDAPS / 636. Using the vCO client I can browse AD no problem, add objects etc.However, using the weboperator URL,...
View ArticleExternal SOAP web service api call without wsdl from vCO workflow
Hi All,is it possible to call SOAP web services without using WSDL and vCO SOAP plug-in ?? I want to consume third party SOAP webservices without using SOAP plug-in, any one know how to do this, please...
View ArticleUsing Locking in vCenter Orchestrator Workflows
Hi All,I had an idea today to start sharing some questions/use cases from current implementations of vCO so that more people can benefit from that. I believe that most of the things that I will try to...
View Articlehorizon plugin poolid empty
Hello, I have installed the Horizon plugin 1.1 for vco 5.5.1 to be able to add some workflows to my horizon view 6.0.1 environment. The installation went fine - after rebooting the service I was able...
View ArticleCustom workflow hanging - please help troubleshoot!
I have a custom workflow that is hanging. Here is what it's doing: It first searches vCenter via vcenter plugin (VcPlugin.getAllVirtualMachines()) and stores the values in an array. It goes through the...
View ArticlevCloud Director - Edge Gateways/Sub-Allocate IP Pools
Hi, Is it possible to add a 'Sub-Allocate IP Pools' to a 'Edge Gateway' in vCloud Director from vCO ? Thanks for your help
View Articleguest script manager package - Powershell error
I am running a PS script post vm creation. The script completes 1/2 way and keeps exiting and getting the error below. PS running on Win2008R2 with PS version 2. The OS handle's position is not what...
View Articlevcenter has unusable lable through orchestrator client
HiI have problem by accessing vcenter through orchestrator client. vcenter has "(unusable) localhost" lable under vcenter plug-in, when I run a workflow and search for example to find a VM to clone or...
View ArticleOrchestrator 5.5 PowerShell Plugin with Kerberos
Hi all,so I'm tinkering around with the PowerShell plugin. I successful connected Orchestrator to a Win2k8R2 via a shared Kerberos connection (http) using administrator@mylab.local however I also...
View ArticleChargeback plugin. Error - Unable to login as the service is not running on...
Hello!I have vCenter Chargebeck Manager 2.6. I found vco plugin for CBM, but only for 2.0. version.I installed plugin, and got error "Unable to login as the service is not running on to the specified...
View ArticleUse Orchestrator to import an ova file.
I found information and a plugin on how to import an ovf using orchestrator but I can't find a way of importing an ova. Since I can do this via the viclient I figure it must be supported in the api...
View ArticleManipulate eDirectory group memberships as part of a workflow
Hi, we are trying to include a method in a server provisioning workflow that adds the requester to an (eDirectory) LDAP group. Has anyone performed similar actions either by a plugin or script? Thank...
View ArticleAD Plugin 1.0.4 not allowing deletion of AD computer accounts
I have looked everywhere and they are all pointing back to the 1.0.3 plugin fixing this issue, so I assumed version 1.0.4 fixed it too, but I don't think so...Error when destroyingan element: [LDAP:...
View ArticleOrchestrator Multi-Site Design
Hi Team, I need some guidance on a vCenter Orchestrator multi-site design. I have 3 sites and Central Site. Each site has a vCenter deployment managing the local ESXi hosts. Two options I can think of...
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