Hi all,
it seems that the number of entries for an scheduled task in the recurrence settings is limited to 16 entries. We have the challenge to run a job every 3 minutes, and if you enter more than 16 entries we get the error message which is attached,
is this a bug ?
Thomas
Using the built-in vRO that is installed with vRA 7.1 in a 2 node cluster.
When I make a change via vRO Control Center (ie to the authentication provider), Orchestrator Cluster Management shows that the configuration for the two nodes is not in synch.
Question is, how do I initiate the synchronization?
The vRO 7.1 documentation suggests that there should be a "Push Configuration and restart nodes" dropdown menu, but for the life of me I can't find it in the Control Center.
One change I made seemed to eventually synchronize over a 48 hour period, so perhaps their is a scheduled synch, but would be nice to be able to synchronize at will and be done with it.
Appreciate any suggestions.
Thx
Matt
Hi,
we have an vro 7.1 appliance (2vCPU 8GB memory) running which is going to an unresponsive state after a few days of uptime. Unresponsive could be
- the UI is not working anymore
- workflows are running forever waiting for example for an SOAP response
- searching the vcenter inventory does not return
- ...
The only solution is to restart the appliance, then everything i working again.
Currently we have 10 vcenter systems connected with ~ 5000 vms,and a few connections to different SOAP Services. (Could it be that some tuning is needed ?)
Thomas
I am having problems creating a wrapper to convert a string (property value passed from vRA) to a VC:DistributedVirtualPortgroup.
I am able to get all the current portgroups in an array but I'm not able to get the correct object based on the name property.
This is what I have currently
var dvPortgroupName = "vxw-dvs-38-virtualwire-113-sid-5003";
var dvPortgroups = VcPlugin.getAllDistributedVirtualPortgroups();
for each (pg in dvPortgroups){
if (pg.name == dvPortgroupName){ System.log("dvPortgroupName found!");
} else { System.log("dvPortgroupName not found!");
}
}
I am able to get the results that I want if I try creating a wrapper using another object like 'datastore'
var datastoreName = "vsanDatastore";
var dataStores = VcPlugin.getAllDatastores();
for each (ds in dataStores){
if (ds.name == datastoreName){ System.log("datastore name found!");
} else { System.log("datastore name not found!");
}
}
Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
I'm using 6.0.3 and if I export a package and then try and import it on another 6.0.3 server, or the same server for that matter, it just says "Unable to extract package from raw data". Has anyone seen this happen before? It is happening on newly deployed vRO appliances...
I can't even do it with an empty package.
I've been making frequent use of Christophe's Guest Script Manager package (https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-25474) over the last few months. All in all, I have seen tremendous benefit from it. I do however, seem to fall victim to several 'false positives' where GSM reports a script has run to success, yet, the observed result in the Guest VM is anything but.
The simplest example I can reproduce to date, is a batch script that creates 4 folders on 3 different drives that exist in a Windows Guest VM. The drives are visible to windows ~ the only thing the script does, is a batch 'mkdir' for 3 folders in the root of the drive, and one subfolder.
The script configuration has a 10 second timeout and a 10 second refresh, as these values *seemed* reasonable given the modest nature of the script. There is no context interactivity, no working directory, and no file copy in the script configuration.
Has anyone experienced something similar? I've tried to script in batch 'sleep' periods *just in case* a 'race' was to blame, but, no change. Any thoughts as to why such a simple script does not consistently demonstrate the expected result? Failure to yield the expected result with such a modest script is discouraging from trying larger, more complex scripts. Any feedback is appreciated!
BIG P.S. I just now tested some additional scenarios:
Creating 4 folders on the root of C:\ in the Windows Guest VM - only the first 2 out of the 4 folders created on the Windows Guest.
Jacked up the script timeout and refresh values to 90 seconds and 30 seconds (which I use successfully on longer running powershell scripts) - only the first 2 out of the 4 folders created on the Windows Guest.
'REM'med out the first 2 folder creates - the second 2 folders ARE NOT created in the Windows Guest. :-o
(In each case, the GSM 'Run script in VM guest' workflow runs to completion with Workflow Designer indicating a successful run)
Ran the second two folder creates manually from Windows Guest VM command line - the folders create as expected.
KRAEMS
vRO Appliance version: 7.1.0.19044 Build 4276164
Workflow Designer version: 7.1.0.4262825
Guest Script Manager version: 0.0.3a
Guest VM OS: Windows 2008 Standard R2 SP1
This is a patch release of the plug-in.
Version 6.0.2.3225709
Version 6.0.2.3431987
Version 6.0.2.4633861
Please note, that the attached plug-in is QE verified, but still not a final version.
Hi. I'm struggling to get a WF running correctly and I'd appreciate any help as always. I've started with the "get custom props" WF from extendingclouds.com which works fine. I then simply want to output a couple of values from there to the "run script in vmguest" WF. We'll call them WF-A & WF-B for now.
If I add WFB to WFA and bind the inputs/outputs it fails, but it causes the first WF to fail (WF-A) with "TypeError: Cannot call method "get" of null (Workflow:Property Collection and Get VM / Get Properties (item1)#1)". The issue is that this seems ot be the problem no matter which way i construct the Workflow.
I then tried to add the "get custom props" (WF-A) to the WF-b workflow. Both working independantly but again this fails with the same error.
Finally I created a 'master' workflow and added both of these to it, set it up and .......same again! I've added some scriptbale tasks to generate logs at each stage of the WF to be sure I'm getting the correct bindings etc and they look ok.
No doubt I'm missing something simple and I'd really appreciate any help you can give.
Thanks in advance and regards
Steve
I recently joined a company and am attempting to clean up their virtual environment. They have an Orchestrator appliance in the environment, but no one seems to have documented configuration on it. I have, after much searching, located the root password. I do not, however, have the vmware password. I know that on a Windows box, I can change the password.properties file back to the default. However, I am unsure how to do this on an appliance. I am getting in through SSH; is there a way to update a single line in a file through the terminal session?
Hi,
I'm trying to add an authentication provider "vsphere mode" in VRO 7.1 but I keep getting the following under identity source: Error! Error configure authentication: com.vmware.vim.sso.admin.exception.NoPermissionException
This happens with my domain account and the administrator@vsphere.local account
Any ideas?
Thanks, Paul
Proxy with credentials are required in our environment for access to Service Now instance. But while integrating vRO and Service Now using "ADD a SOAP Host" workflow, we don't have an option for credentials with proxy.
What all options we can have for the same.
Hello guys,
is there a way to get an object of my Powershell Host? I want to open Sessions and send commands directly in my script without a workflow.
Something like this:
//modify properties psHost.name = "myPSHost01"; psHost.transportProtocol = "HTTPS"; //invoke methods psHost.openSession(); psHost.invokeScript(script); psHost.closeSession(id);
With some research here i found this but i cannot use the output of this statement.
var psHosts = Server.findAllForType("PowerShell:PowerShellHost",null);
//com.vmware.o11n.plugin.powershell.scripting.PowerShellHost
for(psHost in psHosts) { System.log(psHosts[psHost]);
}
Log:
[2016-11-14 14:17:49.306] [I] DynamicWrapper (Instance) : [PowerShellHost]-[class com.vmware.o11n.plugin.powershell.scripting.PowerShellHost] -- VALUE : com.vmware.o11n.plugin.powershell.scripting.PowerShellHost@3a5c781f
Does anyone of you know how the answer?
Thanks
I want have a option in vRA to create a pop up window /prompt screen on clicking submit button to ask "DO you really want to submit?" Options:OK/Cancel.
please provide a solution.
Is there a way to set a start up user on policy though API scripting? We are trying to build up a policy through API but a problem we ran into is that once policy is started it is inheriting credentials of whoever ran a builder workflow. Now we would typically want to have another user (non-admin service account) to run policy.
We'd like to automate tenant creation and I'm not able to find any resources on adding a directory to a tenant. I can find resources on adding the AD server and identity stores, but not the directory piece. Any guidance on documents on what api or workflows I need to work with would be great.
Hi,
I'm getting this error while trying to add a new vCAC:Host in my vRO Server. I'm not sure what configuration I missed during deployment.
vRO version - 7.0.1.3533702
vRA version - 7.0.1 (build 3621464)
vRealize Automation Center Infrastructure Administration plug-in for vCenter Orchestrator version - 7.0.1.3454067
If anyone could just help me out it would be great.
Thanks,
Jibran Patel
Please help me to find out list of snapshots created from a EBS volume through VRO workflow/action element.?
Anyone orchestrating VMAX arrays with vRO? I really don't want to deploy ViPR just to do basic tasks on the VMAX.
Hello,
I'm working actually to brings actions for VM item for Customer needs
.
So i've followed the usual path --> Design / XaaS / Resource Actions / New (and publish...)
New action is quite simple : Connect an ISO to a CD-ROM into a VM so that users can install from sources they needs... (Windows features, SQL Sources, and so on...)
How to:
I've created a new action from VRO 7.1 "Mount CD-ROM"
I've also created a drop-down list of ISO available in a shared datastore as "filePath" and force "deviceType" as "Datastore ISO File" and hide it.
Customer have only choice on ISO images I've defined and made available from the Drop-down menu.
The thing is: this only works when VM is powered OFF!
Is there a way to create actions that allow users to "connect" or "disconnect" iso images from item list as "actions" without needs of POWERING OFF the VM ??
Really enjoy help on this topic!
Regards,
Jacques
VRO working great in the java and downloadable clients. However, I am unable to get Orchestrator to appear in the vsphere web client
Running the following versions:
vRealize Orchestrator v7.01
vRealize vCenter v6, build 2559277
I have tried a variety of authentication configurations for VRO (LDAP, legacy SSO, vSphere, VRA). Same behavior in each.
I have triple-dog checked my roles/permissions/assignments.
I've restarted vro and vsphere web client services.
I've forced the VRO plugin deployment (with VRO service stopped).
I am unable to see the vro extension registered in the MOB
I've gone through release notes and can't find anything additional to try
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions before I engage VMW support?
Thanks everyone - y'all rock!
I've spent time on the following blogs/posts:
The Case of the Missing Orchestrator Extension (and how it was solved) | VMwarebits.com
Unable to register Orchestrator as VCenter Server extension
http://www.vexperienced.co.uk/2015/03/25/vrealize-orchestrator-6-0-deployment-gotchas/