vSphere SDK for Perl Programming Guide - Documentation - VMware

Example
$client->register_xml_ns((wsen => 'http://www.dmtf.org/wsen'));
Appendix A Web Services for Management Perl Library
Declares a prefix wsen with the URL http://www.dmtf.org/wsen in the global XML namespace.
register_class_ns
Registers extra ResourceURIs that the WS‐Management server might require. By default, the constructor
provides a set of ResourceURIs only for classes in the CIM schema. Classes with other schema names, such as
VMware_* classes, require a different ResourceURI when enumerated using the vSphere SDK for Perl.
You can find the ResourceURIs corresponding to other supported schemas in the OpenWSMan configuration
file, which is located in the serverʹs file system at /etc/openwsman/openwsman.conf. The ResourceURIs are
listed in the value of the vendor_namespaces configuration parameter.
Arguments
A hash. Keys are the prefixes, values are the relative URLs as values.
Example
$client->register_class_ns((OMC => 'http://schema.omc-project.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2',
VMware => 'http://schemas.vmware.com/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2'));
Registers the ResourceURIs needed to enumerate classes in the OMC and VMware schemas.
Identify
Performs the wsmid:Identify operation, which causes the WS‐Management server to identify itself. Helps
you determine whether the server is up and running.
Arguments
No arguments.
Returns
Returns a SOAP::SOM object, which you can use to parse the results or do error correction.
Enumerate
Filters results depending on the arguments you pass in. Several arguments perform generic operations that
are implemented in another class, as described in “Generic CIM Operations with WSMan::GenericOps” on
page 57. Other arguments implement enumeration for non‐standard‐compliant servers. This document
discusses the most common arguments. Look at the Perl code for information on other arguments.
Arguments
Accepts the following arguments:
Argument Description
class_name Specifies the class that you want to enumerate. This argument is passed as a string.
namespace Default CIM namespace. Default is root/cimv2.
If the namespace is not root/cimv2, you must pass in the namespace of the class in this
argument.
enummode (optional) Specifies an enumeration mode such as EnumerateEPR or EnumerateEPRandObject.
This argument is passed as a string.
polymorphism (optional) Specifies polymorphism modes, passed in as a string. For example
IncludeSubClassProperties, ExcludeSubClassProperties, and None.
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