pimatic-vsphere

A pimatic plugin to control virtual machines on remote vmware vsphere host.

Plugin Configuration

{
      "plugin": "vsphere",
      "host": "192.168.1.1",
      "password": "password"
}

The plugin has the following configuration properties:

Property	Default	Type	Description
host	-	String	Hostname or IP address of the vSphere Host
user	root	String	vsphere host admin user
password	-	String	Password for the user specified
keyFile	-	String	Path to ssh key file for private key auth (password is also required!)
ssl	false	Boolean	verify ssl certificate, default false
debug	false	Boolean	Debug mode. Writes debug messages to the pimatic log, if set to true

Device Configuration

Please use the autodiscovery funtion on the devices page. This will display your virtual machines and fill all needed information automatically.

This manual configuration can be done, if nessesary:

vSphereControl

The vSphereControl displays the powerState of the virtual machine and three buttons for PowerOn, PowerOff and Restart.

{
		"id": "vpshere",
		"class": "vSphereControl",
		"name": "VM 11",
		"vmid": "11"
}

Property	Default	Type	Description
state	-	String	virtual machine power state. Will be created automatically
vmid	-	String	virtual machine identifier used for power actions
interval	60000	Number	The time interval in milliseconds at which the powerState is updated

ToDo

• Add virtual machine performance monitoring device
• Add vsphere control device
• Add function for getting license info

History

See Release History.

License

Copyright (c) 2016, Thorsten Reichelt and contributors. All rights reserved.

License: GPL-2.0.