HowTo List Virtual Machines using Python and CIM Part 1

Posted by asanabria6910 on Mar 24, 2009 9:56 PM EDT
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Good morning my fellow Admins, Engineers, Scripters, Programmers, etc..... YOU GET THE IDEA :). For the past week, I have been learning all about the CIM and WBEM API. Since I am working alot more then I have ever have with VMware. I am trying to automate as much as possible with out using Perl. Now please do not think I am hating on Perl, it is not that at all, it is just the fact that I love Python, thats all! That being said here is the 1st part in a 2 part series on Listing Virtual Machines using Pywbem in Python. I the 1st part I will show you how to list Virtual Machines and data related to those VMs. Example Below...

Good morning my fellow Admins, Engineers, Scripters, Programmers, etc..... YOU GET THE IDEA :). For the past week, I have been learning all about the CIM and WBEM API. Since I am working alot more then I have ever have with VMware. I am trying to automate as much as possible with out using Perl. Now please do not think I am hating on Perl, it is not that at all, it is just the fact that I love Python, thats all! That being said here is the 1st part in a 2 part series on Listing Virtual Machines using Pywbem in Python. I the 1st part I will show you how to list Virtual Machines and data related to those VMs. Example Below... python listVMsInfo.py -u "http://esxhost" -a "login passwd"

VM Name Linux DP1 Client Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (32-bit) Host Name dpclient.linuxdynasty IP Address 192.168.101.124 DataStore Used [Esxlinux] Linux Data Protector Install Ser.vmx Requested State Not Applicable Operational Status Enabled Enabled by Default Enabled Enabled State Not Applicable

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