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Execution: The example below is an execution where all properties are returned for the specified network adapter of the VM:

 

Get Network Connections

This activity retrieves the available network connections for the selected host.

Activity Parameters

The Get Network Connections activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

  • Cluster (text box editor type) (type: string): the name of the Cluster (only necessary if 'Host' parameter is empty).
  • Datacenter Name (text box editor type) (type: string): the Datacenter name.
  • Datastore Name (text box editor type) (type: string): the Datastore name (optional).
  • Host (text box editor type) (type: string): the Host (ip address).

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

  • Output dvSwitches  (type: collection<collection<string>>): outputs a collection of distributed virtual switch properties and their corresponding values.To use the elements of the collection, use Get Element From Collection activity where the Input Collection parameter should be bind with this parameter.
  • Output Networks  (type:  collection<collection<string>>): outputs a collection of collections containing the Name and ID for each network. To use the elements of the collection, use Get Element From Collection activity where the Input Collection parameter should be bind with this parameter.
  • Output Port Group Keys  (type: collection<string>): outputs a collection of Port Group Keys. To use the elements of the collection, use Get Element From Collection activity where the Input Collection parameter should be bind with this parameter.
  • Output Port Groups  (type:  collection<collection<string>>): outputs a collection of Properties and their corresponding values.To use the elements of the collection, use Get Element From Collection activity where the Input Collection parameter should be bind with this parameter.

 

In order to extract the values from the NetworksCollection collection, For Each and Get Element From Collection activities should be used:


Execution: The example below is an execution where all network connections for host with IP 10.201.0.51:

 

Get Virtual Network Adapters 

This activity gets all the virtual network adapters for the specified host. 

Activity Parameters

The Get Virtual Network Adapters activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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Parameters:

  • VM (text box editor type) (type: string): the virtual machine you want to have returned the network adapter properties.
    The value can also be obtained from activity: Get VM using the following steps:
    • use a Get VM activity to extract the VM ID:
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    • bind the obtained VM ID (stored in variable) to the VirtualMachine ID field from Get Network Adapter Properties activity:
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The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

  • Output  (type: collection<dictionary<string,string>>): outputs a collection of dictionaries containing all the Virtual Adapters found with their details.

In order to extract the values from the NetworkAdapters collection, For Each and Get Element From Collection activities should be used:

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Execution: The example below is an execution where all properties are returned for the specified network adapter of the VM:

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