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Activities

  • Get Desktop Pool
  • Get View Connection Server Information
  • Remove Desktop Pool
  • Reset Virtual Machines
  • Update View Connection Server Configuration

 

 

 

Get Desktop Pool

This activity returns information about a desktop pool, which is retrieved by the Pool ID.

 

Horizon View Desktop Pools:

There are three types of desktop pools: automated, manual, and RDS. Automated desktop pools use a vCenter Server virtual machine template or snapshot to create a pool of identical virtual machines. Manual desktop pools are a collection of existing vCenter Server virtual machines, physical computers, or third-party virtual machines. In automated or manual pools, each Windows machine is available for one user to access remotely at a time. RDS desktop pools are not a collection of Windows machines, but instead, provide users with desktop sessions on RDS hosts. Multiple users can have desktop sessions on an RDS host simultaneously.

Activity Parameters

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

Parameters:

  • Pool ID (text box editor type) (type: string): the ID of the desktop pool for which the information will be retrieved. In Horizon View a desktop pool ID can be numeric or a string, for example "DemoPool", as it can be seen in Horizon View Administrator:
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  • Server (text box editor type) (type: string): the Machine Name or the IP of the server where Horizon View is connected to. This server can be seen in Horizon View Administrator, on the Dashboard page:


  • Password (text box editor type) (type: string): the password for the user that will access Horizon View. If querying with the logged in user and if this user has rights over the server, this field can be left empty.
  • Password Binding (text box editor type) (type: string): bind to a variable containing the encrypted password for the specified user. (This parameter is used only when the user wants to send an encrypted password from outside the task, for example Flowster Studio Portal).
  • Username (text box editor type) (type: string): the user that will access Horizon View. If querying with the logged in user and if this user has rights over the server, this field can be left empty.

 

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

  • Output (type: Dictionary<String,String>): outputs a dictionary of strings, containing a list of name-value pairs information.

 


Execution: the activity outputs information about the given Desktop Pool:




Get View Connection Server Information

This activity displays the configuration settings of a given View Connection Server instance.

 

About View Broker:

The View Broker component, which is the core of View Connection Server, is responsible for all user interaction between clients and View Connection Server. View Broker also includes the Administration Server that is used by the View Administrator Web interface.

View Broker works closely with vCenter Server to provide advanced management of remote desktops, including virtual machine creation and power operations.

Activity Parameters

The Get View Connection Server Information activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

  • Broker ID (text box editor type) (type: string): the name of the connection broker for which the information is retrieved. In this example, the broker ID is "VSRPVCS201", the same as the server's name:.
  • Server (text box editor type) (type: string): the Machine Name or the IP of the View Connection Server host:


  • Password (text box editor type) (type: string): the password for the user that will access the View Configuration Server host. If querying with the logged in user and if this user has rights over the server, this field can be left empty.
  • Password Binding (text box editor type) (type: string): bind to a variable containing the encrypted password for the specified user. (This parameter is used only when the user wants to send an encrypted password from outside the task, for example Flowster Studio Portal).
  • User (text box editor type) (type: string): the user (domain and user, or just user) that have rights on the View Configuration Server host. If querying with the logged in user and if this user has rights over the server, this field can be left empty.

 

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

  • Output (type: Dictionary<String,String>): outputs a dictionary of strings, containing a list of name-value pairs information.

 


Execution: the activity outputs information about the given Desktop Pool:




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