1> Getting Started Doc by VMware
2> https:///mob

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YASH.

ns1__SelectionSpec folderTraversalSelectionSpec;
folderTraversalSelectionSpec.name = new string(“FolderTraversalSpec”);
ns1__SelectionSpec dataCenterVMTraversalSelectionSpec;
dataCenterVMTraversalSelectionSpec.name = new string(“DataCenterVMTraversalSpec”);

ns1__TraversalSpec folderTraversalSpec;
folderTraversalSpec.name = new string(“FolderTraversalSpec”);
folderTraversalSpec.type = “Folder”;
folderTraversalSpec.path = “childEntity”;
folderTraversalSpec.skip = &xsd_true;

ns1__TraversalSpec dataCenterVMTraversalSpec;
dataCenterVMTraversalSpec.name = new string(“DataCenterVMTraversalSpec”);
dataCenterVMTraversalSpec.type = “Datacenter”;
dataCenterVMTraversalSpec.path = “vmFolder”;
dataCenterVMTraversalSpec.skip = &xsd_true;
dataCenterVMTraversalSpec.selectSet.push_back(&folderTraversalSelectionSpec);
folderTraversalSpec.selectSet.push_back(&dataCenterVMTraversalSelectionSpec);
folderTraversalSpec.selectSet.push_back(&folderTraversalSelectionSpec);

ns1__PropertySpec propertySpec;
propertySpec.type = “VirtualMachine”;
propertySpec.pathSet.push_back(“name”);
propertySpec.pathSet.push_back(“guest.ipAddress”);
propertySpec.all = &xsd_false;

How you come to know about this hierarchy or the process.

Thanks,
Yash

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int DumpVMs(VimBindingProxy* vim, ns1__ServiceContent* serviceContent)
{
bool xsd_true = 1;
bool xsd_false = 0;

/* Create the container view for virtual machines */
ns1__CreateContainerViewRequestType containerRequestType;
containerRequestType._USCOREthis = serviceContent->viewManager;
containerRequestType.container = serviceContent->rootFolder;
containerRequestType.type.push_back(“VirtualMachine”);
containerRequestType.recursive = true;

_ns1__CreateContainerViewResponse containerRequestResponse;

if (vim->CreateContainerView(&containerRequestType, &containerRequestResponse) != SOAP_OK)
{
exit(1);
}

/* Create the object spec to define the beggining of the traversal at our view */
ns1__ObjectSpec objectSpec;
objectSpec.obj = containerRequestResponse.returnval;
objectSpec.skip = &xsd_true;

ns1__TraversalSpec traversalSpec;
traversalSpec.name = new string(“traverseEntities”);
traversalSpec.path = “view”;
traversalSpec.skip = &xsd_false;
traversalSpec.type = “ContainerView”;

objectSpec.selectSet.push_back(&traversalSpec);

/* specify what property we want */
ns1__PropertySpec propertySpec;
propertySpec.type = “VirtualMachine”;
propertySpec.pathSet.push_back(“name”);
propertySpec.all = &xsd_false;

// add this to the main request filter spec
ns1__PropertyFilterSpec propertyFilterSpec;
propertyFilterSpec.reportMissingObjectsInResults = &xsd_false;
propertyFilterSpec.propSet.push_back(&propertySpec);
propertyFilterSpec.objectSet.push_back(&objectSpec);

// and execute
ns1__RetrievePropertiesExRequestType request;
ns1__RetrieveOptions options;

request._USCOREthis = serviceContent->propertyCollector;
request.specSet.push_back(&propertyFilterSpec);
request.options = &options;

_ns1__RetrievePropertiesExResponse retrievePropertiesRes;

if (vim->RetrievePropertiesEx(&request, &retrievePropertiesRes) == SOAP_OK)
{
cout << "Number of Objects " <objects.size() << endl;

ns1__ObjectContent* oc = NULL;
ns1__DynamicProperty* dynamicProperty;
for (int i=0; i objects.size(); i++)
{
oc = retrievePropertiesRes.returnval->objects[i];
cout << " Object Type: " <obj->type->c_str();
cout << " (" <propSet.size() << " properties), ";
for (int j=0; j propSet.size(); j++)
{
dynamicProperty = oc->propSet[j];

if ( dynamicProperty->name == “name” )
{
xsd__string* name = (xsd__string *) dynamicProperty->val;
cout << " Name: " <__item;
}

if ( dynamicProperty->name == “guest.ipAddress” )
{
xsd__string* name = (xsd__string *) dynamicProperty->val;
cout << " IP Address: " <__item;
}

if ( dynamicProperty->name == “guest.guestState” )
{
xsd__string* name = (xsd__string *) dynamicProperty->val;
cout << " Guest State: " <__item;
}

}
cout << endl;
}
}

return 0;
}

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