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

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:50:03 +0000

That makes sense now why LucD’s suggestion didn’t work for me. The forum is dropping out the dummy variable in my line. Here it is with underscores…
$vInventory =“__”

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:47:40 +0000

Changing line 35 to “$vInventory =“”” worked for me. All custom roles are added properly except for the last one. I get the same error that Rj.Aguilera gets. I’ll just add that one manually for now.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:44:57 +0000

Hey LucD – Thanks for the Export/Import script. This will prove very useful for me in my upgrade from vCenter 2.5 to 4.1. I’m testing it in my lab environment and I’m getting an error on the import. ( I got your fixed export script on the VMware forums.)
I updated line 35 as mentioned above and I’m getting the error below.

Any help you can provide is appreciated!
———————-

Cannot convert value “” to type “System.Xml.XmlDocument”. Error: “Root element is missing.”

At C:\VM_permissions_import.ps1:36 char:17
+ [XML]$vInventory <<<< = ""
+ CategoryInfo : MetadataError: (:) [], ArgumentTransformationMet
adataException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : RuntimeException

By: Doug Youd

Doug Youd — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:34:03 +0000

Nice work again Alan,

I’m stealing some snippets of this to periodically re-create roles in my test environment from prod.

I did encounter the same errors as Simon… So I opted to use a different method of setting up the xml template.

function create-XMLTemplate([String]$XMLTemplateFile)
{
$input | Out-File $XMLTemplateFile -encoding UTF8
}

$vInventory = New-Object XML
$vInventoryData = @”@
$vInventoryData | create-XMLTemplate $rolesReportLocation
$vInventory.load($rolesReportLocation)

Thanks for saving me some time… again
Doug

By: Doug Youd

Doug Youd — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:42:01 +0000

Nice work again Alan,

I’m stealing some snippets of this to periodically re-create roles in my test environment from prod.

Thanks for saving me some time… again
Doug

By: Rj.Aguilera

Rj.Aguilera — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:52:39 +0000

Hi. Great job LucD!

I get this error

Exception calling “SetEntityPermissions” with “2″ argument(s): “entity”
At C:\Users\A\AppData\Local\Temp\2\116fb4a3-242b-4d1f-814d-9b8278aeabc3.p
s1:54 char:43
+ $perms = $authMgr.SetEntityPermissions <<<< ($object.MoRef,@($permission)
)
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

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 = “”
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