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Table 3‑14. Custom Properties V Table (Continued)
Property Description
VirtualMachine.ScriptPath.Decrypt
Allows vRealize Automation to obtain an encrypted
string that is passed as a properly formaed
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 check box. The guest agent
decrypts the [MyPassword] entry to the value in the
custom property MyPassword and runs 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 check box.
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 do not create the
VirtualMachine.ScriptPath.Decrypt custom
property, then the string inside the square brackets
( [ and ]) is not decrypted.
VirtualMachine.SoftwareN.ISOName
Species the path and lename of the ISO le
relative to the datastore root. The format
is /folder_name/subfolder_name/file_name.is
o. If a value is not specied, the ISO is not mounted.
VirtualMachine.SoftwareN.ISOLocation
Species the storage path that contains the ISO
image le 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
specied, the ISO is not mounted.
VirtualMachine.Storage.Name
Identies the storage path on which the machine
resides. The default is the value specied in the
reservation that was used to provision the machine.
VirtualMachine.Storage.AllocationType
Stores collected groups to a single datastore. A
distributed environment stores disks round-robin
style.
VirtualMachine.Storage.Cluster.Automation.Enabled
If set to True, the storage cluster automation on the
machine is enabled. If set to False, then storage
cluster automation is disabled on the machine. The
storage cluster automation type is determined by the
VirtualMachine.Storage.Cluster.Automation.
Behavior custom property.
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