nested xpath expression | retrieve all VMs that are defined as templates

[goldeneyez]

I am trying to retrieve all VM templates that exist within the vCenter Server.

Assuming that I am using the following code:

var VcVirtualMachine_Array = Server.findAllForType("VC:VirtualMachine",XPath_query);

what should be the XPath_query value ?

I already tried the following methods:

var XPath_query = "xpath:isTemplate='true'";

var XPath_query = "xpath:config.template[contains(.,'true')]";

var XPath_query = "xpath://config/template[@name='template' and @type='true']";

also , according to the following link:

https://www.vmware.com/support/orchestrator/doc/vro-vsphere60-api/html/VirtualMachine.html

the Finder type: VC:VirtualMachine

has a Property named isTemplate

but I am not able to filter the output using this type of Property.

what is the way to filter using XPath a nested attribute ?

because the object it's self has an attribute named: config.template

but all of them were not helping to achieve what I am looking to retrieve as already filtered output.

thank in advanced for the assistance

[Ilian Iliev]

Hi,

Try with:

var XPath_query = "xpath:config/template[ . = true() ]";
var VcVirtualMachine_Array = Server.findAllForType("VC:VirtualMachine", XPath_query);

[kjellcomputer]

For future references, this did the trick for me:

// xpath query do get only templates
var query = "xpath:summary/config/template = 'true'";
var templates = Server.findAllForType("VC:VirtualMachine", query);