Guest Process Manager Read Environment Variable In Guest

Guest Process Manager Read Environment Variable In Guest

Reads an environment variable from the guest OS

If the authentication uses interactiveSession, then the environment being read will be that of the user logged into the desktop. Otherwise it's the environment of the user specified by the auth.

Request
URI
POST
https://{vcenter-host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/GuestProcessManager/{moId}/ReadEnvironmentVariableInGuest
COPY
Path Parameters
string
moId
Required

The unique identifier for the managed object to which the method attaches; the serialized managed object reference for a request has the form moType/moId, in this case GuestProcessManager/{moId}.

string
release
Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.2.0 APIs.


Request Body
Required
{
    "vm": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "string"
    },
    "auth": {
        "_typeName": "string",
        "interactiveSession": false
    },
    "names": [
        "string"
    ]
}
vm
Required

Reference to an instance of the VirtualMachine managed object.

auth
Required

GuestAuthentication is an abstract base class for authentication in the guest.

array of string
names
Optional

The names of the variables to be read. If not set, then all the environment variables are returned.

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
200

A string array containing the value of the variables, or all environment variables if nothing is specified. The format of each string is "name=value". If any specified environment variable isn't set, then nothing is returned for that variable.

Returns Array of string of type(s) application/json
[
    {}
]

500

GuestOperationsFault: if there is an error processing a guest operation.

GuestOperationsUnavailable: if the VM agent for guest operations is not running.

InvalidPowerState: if the VM is not powered on.

InvalidState: if the operation cannot be performed because of the virtual machine's current state.

TaskInProgress: if the virtual machine is busy. accepted by the guest OS.

GuestPermissionDenied: if there are insufficient permissions in the guest OS.

InvalidGuestLogin: if the the guest authentication information was not accepted.

GuestComponentsOutOfDate: if the guest agent is too old to support the operation.

OperationNotSupportedByGuest: if the operation is not supported by the guest OS.

OperationDisabledByGuest: if the operation is not enabled due to guest agent configuration.

Returns VimFault of type(s) application/json
This response body class contains all of the following: MethodFault
{
    "_typeName": "string",
    "faultCause": "MethodFault Object",
    "faultMessage": [
        {
            "_typeName": "string",
            "key": "string",
            "arg": [
                {
                    "_typeName": "string",
                    "key": "string",
                    "value": {
                        "_typeName": "string"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "message": "string"
        }
    ]
}