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Orchestrator Logfiles

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Joerg Lew
– March 15, 2011Posted in: Tools, Troubleshooting / Debugging
Orchestrator uses the log4j-mechanism (Version 1.2) for logging. The core-platform, custom scripting elements (via System.log()) and the Plugins log to the targets configured in the log4j.xml in %INSTALLDIR%\app-server\server\vmo\conf.

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For a description of the possible log-targets view the original log4j-documentation:
http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/manual.html
Nice examples for the configuration log4j.xml you can find on
http://wiki.apache.org/logging-log4j/Log4jXmlFormat
Additional there is a snmp-appender for log4j. So you can send snmp-traps for log-events as well. An example configuration:
http://code.google.com/p/log4j-snmp-trap-appender/
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Python Client for vCO

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Joerg Lew
– March 15, 2011Posted in: Call Workflows from outside, Integrate vCO
It’s an example for a client for the Orchestrator Web Services, written in python.

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Managed Object Browser

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Joerg Lew
– March 15, 2011Posted in: Tools
The Managed Object Browser (MOB) runs on your vCenter-Server (It’s installed and started automatically, so there is no need to download something). It provides a HTML-View on the vSphere API.
You can use the MOB to surf through the Objects in your environment and look for names of methods, attributes,…

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VMware Onyx

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Joerg Lew
– March 15, 2011Posted in: Tools
THE Tool for VMware-Developer:
Onyx is a proxy between vSphere Client and vCenter, catches “clicked” Tasks and prints out the API-Calls in Raw SOAP-Messages, .net-Code, Powershell-commands AND…
…JavaScript for vCO!

Screenshot of VMWare Onyx

see also http://labs.vmware.com/flings/onyx

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XML-handling, the E4X-way

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Joerg Lew
– March 1, 2011Posted in: Examples
The (easier?) alternative to the XML-plugin:
Create variables with plain XML-syntax like
</div>
//create new xml-variable with E4X-syntax
 var xmlcontent = <vms></vms>;
 //E4X: create XML-Child Element: VM
 xmlcontent.vm.@uuid = uuid;
 xmlcontent.vm.name = vmname;
 xmlcontent.vm.cpus = numCpus;
 xmlcontent.vm.memory = memSize;
 xmlcontent.vm.ip = guestIpAddress;
 xmlcontent.vm.hostname = guestHostname;
 //log for sure : - )
 System.debug(xmlcontent);
Available through the Rhino JavaScript engine in vCO, which includes E4X.