VMware Guest |
Description
Automate's VMware Guest action contains a variety of activities that lets you control an individual guest operating system or numerous guest operating systems running on multiple virtual machines. These activities can automate many common operations such as running a program or script, administer processes, create and manage directories and files, manage environment variables, create screen shots and much more. With these activities, you can run common tasks on a network where you have multiple virtual machines running on one or more physical machines. Automate supports the full suite of virtualization software including ESX, ESXi, Workstation, and Player.
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NOTE: All functions that execute in a guest operating system require VMware Tools to be installed and running. Additionally, a valid guest login is required to run this activity. |
Available Activities
The following table briefly describes the available activities for this action. Click the appropriate link for more details regarding each activity.
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Captures the current screen image that appears on the guest virtual machine and saves it to a local file. |
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Connects to the guest virtual machine. |
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Copies one or more files from the guest virtual machine. |
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Creates a directory on the guest virtual machine. |
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Creates a temp file on the guest virtual machine. |
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Delete's one or more files from the guest virtual machine. |
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Determines the existence of a directory on the guest virtual machine. |
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Disconnects from the guest virtual machine. |
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Determines the existence of one or more files on the guest virtual machine. |
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Retrieves the value of a system-level or user-level environment variable that resides on the guest virtual machine populates a variable with the results. |
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Retrieves information regarding a file that resides in the guest virtual machine. |
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Retrieves the value for a guest info variable. |
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Kills a process running on the guest virtual machine. |
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Retrieves a directory listing on the guest virtual machine and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Retrieves a list of all processes currently running on the guest virtual machine and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Logs onto a guest virtual machine. |
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Logs out of a guest virtual machine. |
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Opens a URL in the guest virtual machine. |
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Renames a file that resides in the guest virtual machine. |
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Runs a program on the guest virtual machine. |
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Runs a script on the guest virtual machine. |
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Sets an environment variable on the guest virtual machine. |
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Sets a guest variable on the guest virtual machine. |