VMware Virtual Machine Reconfiguration Webinar Sample Code

VMware using the VI API for Enhanced Performance Management Webinar: Printer Intervals Sample Code

printintervals.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Copyright 2006 VMware, Inc.  All rights reserved.
#################################################################################
# printintervals.pl
#    Print the intervals for an entity.
#     --server  --username <u> --password 
#	--entity                     VirtualMachine, HostSystem, ComputeResource, ResourcePool
#	Script provided as a sample.
#	DISCLAIMER. THIS SCRIPT IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, 
#     WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THE AUTHOR SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES 
#     OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 
###################################################################################

use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;
use VMware::VIRuntime;
use VMware::VILib;

my %opts = (
   entity  => {
      type     => "=s",
      variable => "entity",
      help     => "Entity (VirtualMachine, HostSystem, ComputeResource, ResourcePool",
      required => 1});

# validate options, and connect to the server
Opts::add_options(%opts);
Opts::parse();
Opts::validate();
Util::connect();
my $entity = Opts::get_option ('entity');

my $entity_view = Vim::find_entity_view(view_type => $entity);
die "Entity $entity not found\n" unless ($entity_view);

my $service = Vim::get_service_content();
my $perfmgr_view = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => $service->perfManager);
my $historical_intervals = $perfmgr_view->historicalInterval;
my $provider_summary = $perfmgr_view->QueryPerfProviderSummary(entity => $entity_view);
print "Source: " . $service->about->fullName . "\n";
print "Entity Name: ". $entity_view->name . " [" . ref($entity_view) . "]\n";
print "Supports real-time stats: ", ($provider_summary->currentSupported) ? 'Yes' : 'No', "\n";
print "Refresh rate: " , $provider_summary->refreshRate, "\n";
print "Supports historical stats: ", ($provider_summary->summarySupported) ? 'Yes' : 'No', "\n";
my @intervals;
foreach (@$historical_intervals) {
   push @intervals, $_->samplingPeriod;
   }
print "Historical intervals (seconds) : ", join (",", @intervals), "\n";

Util::disconnect();

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