vSphere SDK for Perl Programming Guide - Documentation - VMware

Arguments
A hash. Keys are the prefixes, values are the relative URLs as values.
Appendix A Web Services for Management Perl Library
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 running.
Arguments
No arguments.
Returns
Prints a fault string if a fault occurs, or returns the reply sent by the server. The reply is a hash reference
containing the parsed reply in key‐value pairs.
EnumerateInstances
Enumerates the instances of a given class.
Returns
Returns a list of hashes containing the parsed reply from the server, or prints a fault string from the server if
an error occurs.
Example
$client->EnumerateInstances(
class_name => 'CIM_Processor',
namespace => 'root/cimv2' #optional
)
EnumerateInstanceNames
Enumerates only the key values of the instances of a given class. Similar to EnumerateInstances.
Returns
Like EnumerateInstances, either returns a list of hashes containing the parsed reply from the server (keys
only), or prints a fault string if an error occurs.
EnumerateAssociatedInstances
Returns the instances related to the source object through an association. Results are filtered based on the
argument you pass in.
Arguments
Accepts the following arguments:
Argument Description
class_name Name of the class for which you want to get the associated instances.
selectors Set keys as a reference to a hash. Used to identify the instance of the class
mentioned in the class_name argument.
associationclassname
(optional)
Name of the association class for the instance.
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