Hi.
I'm currently working on a project that will be using UCSD 6.6 to orchestrate the creation and configuration of virtual machines within VMware. The development of workflows using UCSD has identified settings within VMware that are not provided by the default UCSD VM Tasks, and so I've started to look at custom tasks to provide these additional settings through the use of Cloupia scripting.
However, my initial investigation with custom tasks has not resulted in success and I'm struggling to find the required documentation to understand what APIs I should be using.
The documentation I have been using is the UCS Director Custom Task Getting Started Guide: (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-director/custom-task-getting-started-guide/6-6/cisco-ucs-director-custom-task-getting-started-66/cisco-ucs-director-custom-task-getting-started-66_chapter_0101.html)
and examples at:
(https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-director/cloupia-script-cookbook/6-0/b_Cisco_UCS_Director_CloupiaScript_Cookbook_60/b_Cisco_UCS_Director_CloupiaScript_Cookbook_54_chapter_010.html#reference_3C3357A829E141F1A0EA6F565545...)
I've tried implementing the Disk Resize example from the second link (repeated below).
importPackage(java.lang);
importPackage(java.util);
importPackage(com.cloupia.model.cIM);
importPackage(com.cloupia.service.cIM.inframgr);
function resizeVmDisk(vmidstr, diskName, sizeInGB)
{
var vmid = Integer.parseInt(vmidstr);
// create the context to
var vmcontext = util.createContext("vm", null, vmidstr);
// obtain VM details
var vminfo = ctxt.getAPI().getVMwareVMInfo(vmid);
var vmname = vminfo.getName();
var nameparam = new ActionParam("vmName", vmname);
var sizeparam = new ActionParam("vmSize", sizeInGB);
var diskparam = new ActionParam("vmDiskLabel", diskName);
var paramarr = [ nameparam, sizeparam, diskparam ];
logger.addInfo("About to resize VM "+vmidstr+" name="+vmname);
var status = ctxt.getAPI().performAction(vmcontext,"diskResize","Resizing VM to
test the script",ctxt.getUserId(),paramarr);
logger.addInfo("status = "+status);
}
var vmidstr1 = ctxt.getInput("VMID");
resizeVmDisk(vmidstr1, "Hard Disk 1", "10");
When executing a workflow with this example, the workflow is reported as completed within UCSD, by I see no new Task/Change within VMware. What tools are available to debug this and determine where the failure occurs? In regards to documentation for the different Cloupia packages and their usage, the Javadoc pages appear empty of documentation (assuming that I am looking at the right place) : (https://developer.cisco.com/docs/ucs-dev-center-ucs-director/#!ucs-director-open-automation-javadocs).
Therefore I'm not sure if I am using the right classes and methods for these operations and what is available to me (e.g. in the disk resize example, "diskResize" is the action passed to the performAction method. How do I know what actions are available?). Are the com.cloupia packages the correct ones to use for VMware operations?
Any input/advice/link to better documentation would be greatly appreciated.
