A collection of methods and utilities for CloudForms Automate
Prereqs - all done on the database appliance within your CloudForms region
- Ensure the CloudForms database is configured and running
- Navigate to the (rhtconsulting/cfme-rhconsulting-scripts repo)[https://github.com/rhtconsulting/cfme-rhconsulting-scripts] and download and install the scripts.
$ git clone https://github.com/Cameronwyatt/CFME-Automate-Utilities.git
$ miqimport domain Utilities </path/to/CFME-Automate-Utilities> This method calculates a unique name for a VM. It queries the CloudForms VMDB for all VM names matching the user-customized variable prefix with the unique identifier of digits 0-9 repeated NUM_DIGIT times added to the end. For example, if prefix is set to test and NUM_DIGITS is set to 2, it will query the database for all VMs named prefix00 through prefix99. This is done using a regular expression and the Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord where method for efficiency purposes. This allows it to only execute one query against the database to find all names that match the specified format.
In addition, the method will query the CloudForms VMDB for any provision requests that are currently in-flight and make sure that the VM name being chosen does not conflict.
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