Help with a script that tries to gather info

[cmartinvalle]

Hi,

I have this piece of code:

my $vm_view = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'VirtualMachine');

my $vnic_name;

my $vnic_device;

foreach(@$vm_view) {

        my $vm_name = $_->summary->config->name;

        my $devices =$_->config->hardware->device;

        my $mac_string;

        my $network = "";

        foreach(@$devices) {

                if($_->isa("VirtualEthernetCard")) {

                        $mac_string .= "\t\t[" . $_->deviceInfo->label . "] : " . $_->macAddress . "\n";

                }

                if ($_->deviceInfo->label eq $vnic_name){

                        $vnic_device=$_;

                        print "\t$vnic_device\n";

                        my $currMac = $vnic_device->macAddress;

                        print "\t$currMac\n";

                        my $network = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => $_->backing->network, properties => ['name']);

                        print "\t" . $network->{'name'} . "\n";

                }

        }

And when executing it, the output is:

Undefined subroutine &VirtualEthernetCardDistributedVirtualPortBackingInfo::network called at getAllVMMacs.pl line 38

But I want to gather info from the object VirtualEthernetCardNetworkBackingInfo, not from VirtualEthernetCardDistributedVirtualPortBackingInfo, I suppose the problem is in this line: "my $network = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => $_->backing->network, properties => ['name']);" but I don't know how to invoke to the right object, does anyone know how to do it?

Many thanks.

[stumpr]

You have to check your backing type since there are differences between a DistributeVirtualPortgroup and a standard Portgroup.

[cmartinvalle]

OK, that's it! Many thanks!

It only works with Standard Switches. Do you know who is the right object and proporti for Distributed Switches? I'm trying with some of them (VirtualEthernetCardDistributedVirtualPortBackingInfo, DistributedVirtualSwitch, DistributedVirtualPortGroup, etc.) but still without success :smileysad:

[stumpr]

Working from memory here...

Your backing type in the case of a Distributed Virtual Switch Portgroup will be a 'VirtualEthernetCardDistributedVirtualPortBackingInfo'.  From that, you can get the 'portgroupKey'.  That key should be a UUID type value, which you can use to find the DistributedVirtualPortgroup by comparing it with the DistributedVirtualPortgroup.key values.  That will have a 'name' property that is probably the value you want (portgroup name).

You can probably do something like the following once you get your portgroupKey -

$pgKey = <key value from VirtualEthernetCardDistributedVirtualPortBackingInfo>;

$dvpg = find_entity_view( view_type => 'DistributedVirtualPortgroup', filter => { 'key' => $pgKey }, properties => [ 'name' ] );

print $dvpg->{'name'} . "\n";

If you were looking for speed in your script, you could fetch all the Network and DistributedVirtualPortgroup entities and store them in a hash for later lookup to avoid the multiple SDK calls.

[cmartinvalle]

Thank you very much! I will give it a try this week and will share the results with you. From my ignorance, it seems to be right!