Comments on: vSphere permissions: export & import – Part 2

By: Simon Long

Simon Long — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:53:35 +0000

Hi Luc, I now get this error:

Cannot convert value “[/xml]” to type “System.Xml.XmlDocument”. Error: “Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.”
At :line:36 char:11
+ $vInventory <<<< = "[/xml]"

By: LucD

LucD — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:36:45 +0000

Simon, in PS v2 line 35 should be
$vInventory = [/xml]“”
Can you give that a try ?

By: Simon Long

Simon Long — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:47:03 +0000

Hi Alan, I’m trying to run this import script and I am getting the following error:

Exception calling “AddAuthorizationRole” with “2″ argument(s): “A specified parameter was not correct.
privIds”
At :line:8 char:39
+ $roleId = $authMgr.AddAuthorizationRole <<<< ($name,$privIds)

Any idea?

Simon

By: Simon Long

Simon Long — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:56:05 +0000

Hi Rutch, Change line 35 to this:

[XML]$vInventory = “”

Regards

Simon

By: Rutch Johnson

Rutch Johnson — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:30:35 +0000

Iam getting the following error on inport. Any ideas?

[vSphere PowerCLI] C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI> $vIn
ventory.Load($XMLfile)
Method invocation failed because [System.String] doesn’t contain a method named
‘Load’.
At line:1 char:17
+ $vInventory.Load <<<< ($XMLfile)
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (Load:String) [], RuntimeExcep
tion
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound