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Table 3‑13. Custom Properties V Table (Continued)
This section lists vRealize Automation custom properties that
begin with the letter V.
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.
VirtualMachine.SoftwareN.PostInstallDelay Specifies a time delay value, in TimeSpan string format, to
wait before sending the next InstallSoftware work item If a
value is not specified, there is no time delay between
InstallSoftware work items.
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