6.2

Table 2‑16. Custom Properties for Customizing Provisioned Machines with a Guest Agent
(Continued)
Custom Property Description
VirtualMachine.ScriptPath.Decrypt
Allows vRealize Automation to obtain an encrypted string that is
passed as a properly formatted
VirtualMachine.SoftwareN.ScriptPath custom property
statement to the gugent command line.
You can provide an encrypted string, such as your password, as
a custom property in a command line argument. This allows you
to store encrypted information that the guest agent can decrypt
and understand as a valid command line argument. For
example, the VirtualMachine.Software0.ScriptPath =
c:\dosomething.bat password custom property string is not
secure as it contains an actual password.
To encrypt the password, you can create a vRealize Automation
custom property, for example MyPassword = password, and
enable encryption by selecting the available checkbox. The
guest agent decrypts the [MyPassword] entry to the value in the
custom property MyPassword and executes the script as
c:\dosomething.bat password.
n
Create custom property MyPassword = password where
password is the value of your actual password. Enable
encryption by selecting the available checkbox.
n
Set custom property
VirtualMachine.ScriptPath.Decrypt as
VirtualMachine.ScriptPath.Decrypt = true.
n
Set custom property
VirtualMachine.Software0.ScriptPath as
VirtualMachine.Software0.ScriptPath =
c:\dosomething.bat [MyPassword].
If you set VirtualMachine.ScriptPath.Decrypt to false, or
don't create the VirtualMachine.ScriptPath.Decrypt
custom property, then the string inside the square brackets
( [ and ]) is not decrypted.
VirtualMachine.SoftwareN.ISOName Specifies the path and file name of the ISO file relative to the
data store root. The format
is /folder_name/subfolder_name/file_name.iso. If a value
is not specified, the ISO is not mounted.
VirtualMachine.SoftwareN.ISOLocation Specifies the storage path that contains the ISO image file to be
used by the application or script. Format the path as it appears
on the host reservation, for example netapp-1:it_nfs_1. If a
value is not specified, the ISO is not mounted.
Custom Properties for Networking
The vRealize Automation custom properties for networking specify configuration for a specific network
device on a machine.
Note This information does not apply to Amazon Web Services.
Custom Properties Reference
VMware, Inc. 39