Activities

• Connect to Host
• Disconnect from Host

Connect to Host

This activity connects to a VMware Host. The Output of this activity should be used as Input for all Connection parameters used for all activities found under VMware directory.

Activity Parameters

The Connect to Host activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

• Host Name (text box editor type) (type: string): the Host name or IP address or target machine. Use "https://0.0.0.0/sdk" mask, replace 0.0.0.0 with the IP address or the Host Name.
• Password (text box editor type) (type: string): the password for the user that will connect to the remote machine. If querying the local computer, this property is ignored.
• Password Binding (text box editor type) (type: string): bind to a variable containing the encrypted password for the remote computer. (This parameter is used only when the user wants to send an encrypted password from outside the workflow, for example Flowster Studio Portal).
• Use Secure  (combobox control editor type) (type:string): choose whether to use secure communication ('https') or standard ('http'). Flowster Studio provides the following options:
  • True: use secure communication ('https').
  • False: use standard communication ('http').
• Username (text box editor type) (type: string): the Username for the user to query to the remote computer.

As mentioned above, the values for all the required parameters can be provided by IN arguments or variables. Below is an example of predefined arguments, ready to be used by the Connect to Host activity:

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

• Connection(type: object): outputs a VMware connection. The Output from this activity should be used as an Input for all Connection parameters used for all activities found under VMware directory.