Hello all,
I have been attempting to find a way to add the creator of a VM and the date it was created to the attributes of the new VM. I have looked at Bryan McClellan script https://www.markiiisys.com/blog/vm-alarm-script/ and I create the attributes in vCenter first (vm.owner and vm.provisioned) and then I place the script into the VCSA at /root/vm.alarm-attr.py. I make the script executable with chmod +x and then create an alarm to run the script pointing to /root/vm.alarm-attr.py when someone deploys a VM. Although he doesn't specify, I created the attributes type as "virtual machine" and after that did not work I deleted it and created attributes as type "global" also with no luck in adding values after VM deployment.
The alarm runs and the script shows no errors in the events under the newly created VM, but the attributes values to not receive the data. I am new to python so I can't figure out what is not working.
Here is the script:
#!/usr/bin/python
##
## To be ran on the VCSA and called via alarm rule
##
import sys
from getpass import getpass
from datetime import datetime
import ssl
import os
sys.path.extend(os.environ['VMWARE_PYTHON_PATH'].split(';'))
from pyVim import connect
from pyVim.connect import SmartConnect
from pyVmomi import vim
alarm_name = os.getenv('VMWARE_ALARM_NAME', 'debug_VMWARE_ALARM_NAME')
alarm_target_name = os.getenv('VMWARE_ALARM_TARGET_NAME', 'debug_VMWARE_ALARM_TARGET_NAME')
event_decscription = os.getenv('VMWARE_ALARM_EVENTDESCRIPTION', 'debug_VMWARE_ALARM_EVENTDESCRIPTION')
alarm_value = os.getenv('VMWARE_ALARM_ALARMVALUE', 'debug_VMWARE_ALARM_EVENTDESCRIPTION')
alarm_vm = os.getenv('VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_VM', 'debug_VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_VM')
alarm_user = os.getenv('VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_USERNAME', 'debug_VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_USERNAME')
if alarm_vm != 'debug_VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_VM':
s=ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23) # For VC 6.5/6.0 s=ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
s.verify_mode=ssl.CERT_NONE
# The pwd variable will need to be to a real password.
# Perhaps using a lookup from a vault.
# This is not built into this script
# Of course "vcenter" and "user" will need to be updated as well
si = SmartConnect(host="vCenterNameHere", user="admin@vsphere.local", pwd="AdminPassword", sslContext=s)
content=si.content
def find_vm_obj(content, vimtype, name):
obj = {}
container = content.viewManager.CreateContainerView(content.rootFolder, vimtype, True)
for c in container.view:
if name:
if c.name == name:
obj = c
break
else:
obj = c
break
return obj
vm = find_vm_obj(content, [vim.VirtualMachine], alarm_vm)
## These attributes must exist in vcenter before writing
## Feel free to add, remove or change the ones below
if vm:
vm.setCustomValue('vm.owner', alarm_user)
vm.setCustomValue('vm.provisioned', str(datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')))