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Phianne CalistaExplorer

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richiewrtAdventurer

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How to disable Calm

I turned on a trial of calm in my cluster, but never really did anything with it. I’ve searched and searched but I’ve been unsuccessful in finding how to disable it. Can someone point me in the right direction?Thanks!

3 months ago

Saulo de TarsoVoyager

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OpenLDAP with Prism Central + Prism Self Service (Calm)

Hello,Prism Central documentation supports OpenLDAP 2.4 release running on CentOS distributions only.Question ....I take it that Red Hat LDAP is not supported in Prism Central, correct?Can I only use OpenLDAP 2.4 with CentOS and cannot use OpenLDAP 2.5.13 (LTS) with CentOS?In Prism Self Service (Calm) documentation I find reference to Active Directory.Question ...In Calm can I work with OpenLDAP or only with Microsoft Active Directory?In a cluster with Prism Central + Prism Self Service (Calm) do I have to implement Microsoft Active Director only?

8 months ago

NuthawinVoyager

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Shell script execution has failed with error eof after upgrading to Calm 3.5.0

I’ve recently upgraded to Calm 3.5.0 and now all the ‘shell script execution has failed with error eof’ Has anyone ran across this before?Thanks,-Joe

11 months ago

DharmsakthiScout

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Virtual Machine Disk - usage_stats - calm v2.0

Implemented the Calm v2.0 API, have to retrieve the usage_stats(used and free space) of the virtual machine’s disks by using calm v2.0 API. Haven’t found usage_stats in the response for the API api/nutanix/v2.0//virtual_disks/{uuid}. Is there any other way to get these stats by using calm v2 or v1 but not v3.

11 months ago

Martin EdeliusTrendsetter

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Where can I find the UUID of a single-VM blueprint app profile?

Hi all.I have a single-VM blueprint that I want to launch using the “Launch blueprint” API call. The schema for this call requires that I specify an app profile UUID but no matter where I look, I can’t find any reference to this UUID, neither in the UI nor via API calls.To be fair, I haven’t gone through every single API call so there might still be one that eludes me.How do I know what app profile UUID to include in my payload when using the “Launch blueprint” API call?Thanks!

1 year ago

Duong QuocVoyager

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Nutanix Calm - No child logs available for this action

Hi, I follow this guide https://github.com/pipoe2h/calmworkshop/blob/master/calm_win/calm_win.rst to create a Windows multi-VM Blueprint, but when i run application it get an error. Can everyone tell me what exactly it is?Thank for your helps

1 year ago

Duong QuocVoyager

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Can't Enable Nutanix Calm

Hi, I have a trouble to enable Nutanix Calm when I try to deploy it, I checked NCC and everything run well but in Calm the Precheck failed: “ PC to 0005e2ce-d78a-2724-0000-00000000e308 host cluster health check is not OK. Please check if cluster is accessible from PC ”.My Prism Central version is 5.20.4.5 LTS - Starter License

1 year ago

iNikoTrailblazer

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Calm integration with NSX-T

Is there any kind of integration between Calm and VMware NSX-T? I would like to understand if there is the possibility to “completely automate” deployment of VMs (integration with vsphere) and network services.

1 year ago

Martin EdeliusTrendsetter

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How do I launch a blueprint with a project reference?

Hi all!I’m guessing I’m missing something obvious here, but I can’t figure it out so I’m hoping that the community can give me a helping hand. :)I want to launch a blueprint using the /blueprints/{uuid}/launch API call as the “simple launch” call doesn’t do what I want. I want to automatically associate the new application with a project and as far as I can tell I have to use the “normal launch” for that.I grabbed the exact payload that Prism Central/Calm sends and have spent half a day trying to clean it up so that I can re-use it, but this is where I get nowhere. If I remove too much, I get an error directly from the API but most of the time I can submit the request without errors.Compounding the issue is that there is nothing showing in the Tasks-indicator in Prism Central, not even an error or a warning, after I sent in the call - there is simply no trace at all of the task I just created.If I check the pending launch details with the /blueprints/{uuid}/pending_launches/{launched_u

1 year ago

Martin EdeliusTrendsetter

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How can I use multiple endpoints in the same runbook or blueprint?

Hi all!I’m writing a runbook with tasks that needs to use different endpoints from different Nutanix Projects. This seems to be impossible, so I want to check in with the community to see if I’m doing something wrong. :)I can create an endpoint without “assigning” it to a specific project, but this doesn’t matter since I have to define a project when creating a runbook. This means that I can only use endpoints that are assigned to the project the runbook is using.An endpoint can only be assigned to one project so assigning an endpoint to multiple projects is not an option.One possible (as well as very clunky and cumbersome) workaround would be to create identical endpoints for every project that needs access to it, but all endpoints must be uniquely named which makes this even more of a nightmare.Is what I want to do at all possible?Thanks.

1 year ago

Martin EdeliusTrendsetter

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Example schema for launching a marketplace blueprint?

Hi.There is no example of a schema for the Launch marketplace item API call due to the schema being too large.Can someone please provide me with either a schema that I can use “as-is” for launching a blueprint via the marketplace or an example schema that I can base my call on?Thanks!

1 year ago

Martin_bj2021Adventurer

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What are categories needed before I lunch a blueprint?

Hi all,I have noticed 8 of categories are needed for creating a vm. "api_version": "3.1.0", "metadata": { "categories": { "CalmApplication": "test_single_vm_6", "CalmClusterUuid": "593a823c-975f-455d-9b37-9aa61181accb", "CalmDeployment": "42615561_deployment", "CalmPackage": "Package1", "CalmProject": "my-calm", "CalmService": "Service1", "CalmUser": "admin", "OSType": "Linux", "Project": "default" }, "kind": "vm", "name": "vm-0-220421-054929" }I have some errors when lunching a blueprint. ERROR: Category key creation failed at the AHV due to the following reasons: ERROR: Category key creation failed at the AHV due to the following reasons: ERROR: Category key creation failed at the AHV due to the following reasons: ERROR: Category key creation failed at the AHV due to the following reasons: ERROR: Category key creation failed at the AHV due to the fol

1 year ago

raajiNutanix Employee

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Performing Inventory and Upgrading Calm with Life Cycle Manager

Use LCM to display the software and firmware versions of the entities in the cluster.ProcedureIn Prism Central, click the gearbox icon to open the Settings page and select Life Cycle Management in the sidebar. Prism Central opens the Life Cycle Manager page. Click to enlarge Click Options > Perform Inventory. If you do not have auto-update enabled, and a new version of the LCM framework is available, LCM shows a warning message: Click to enlarge Click OK. The LCM displays all discovered entities. To view the current Calm and Epsilon versions, click View All. Click to enlarge The entity shows the current version, as well as the date and time of the most recent update. Click All Updates to return to the Life Cycle Manager page. Upgrading Calm with the Life Cycle Manager Use LCM to upgrade Calm and Epsilon to the latest available versions. LCM allows you to upgrade Calm or Epsilon independently or simultaneously. Configure rules in your external firewall to allow LCM updates. F

1 year ago

raajiNutanix Employee

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Upgrading Calm VM with Lifecycle Manager

You can upgrade to newer versions of Calm without performing a VM upgrade. Upgrades to most minor releases and few major releases are done using the LCM method.LCM performs inventory and Calm/Epsilon upgrade operations fail using the default LCM URL. The workaround is to replace the LCM repository URL to http://download.nutanix.com/lcm/saas under the LCM > Settings.To upgrade Calm VM using the LCM method, do the following: Procedure Click Administration > LCM to open the LCM page. Click Perform Inventory.A confirmation window appears. Click Proceed.The Perform Inventory process can take several minutes depending on your cluster size. Once completed, you can view the available updates in the Software page. Select the check-box next to the Calm VM version that you want to upgrade. Then, click Update.Note that the Epsilon check-box also gets selected. Epsilon is the orchestration engine used by Calm. A confirmation window appears.Once the update process begins, it cannot be st

1 year ago

Colin59Wayfarer

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Generate ssh keys for User logon for Calm 3.3.1

Since updating to Calm 3.3.1 ssh keys for user auth that worked with my blueprints in Calm 3.2.6 are being rejected with an error message that the key is not encrypted. The keys were created with Windows 10 openssh and worked just fine until the update. Can anyone tell me how to create ssh keys that Calm 3.3.1 will accept?

1 year ago

Martin EdeliusTrendsetter

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How does Calm execute PowerShell on an endpoint?

Hi all!In an attempt to solve a problem with “round-tripping” JSON I’ve concluded that the only fix is to use PowerShell 7 since the ConvertTo-Json cmdlet in version 7 allows me to escape the troublesome characters.This solution might just be me robbing Peter to pay Paul though as I now face the issue of getting Calm to use PowerShell 7 instead of the default 5.1 (a.k.a. Windows PowerShell).I’ve gone so far to set the default PowerShell remote endpoint (windows.powershell) to point to PSH 7, which works if I do a traditional Enter-PSSession but not if I execute a PowerShell script in a Calm runbook.Which leads up to the title of this topic, how does Calm execute PowerShell on an endpoint?Since it’s using port 5985 it should be WinRM/WSMAN/remote PowerShell, but it completely ignores the fact that the default PSH remote endpoint is pointing to PSH 7.Is it using another endpoint? Or is it not using WinRM after all?

1 year ago

Martin EdeliusTrendsetter

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Round-tripping a VM definition using PowerShell 5.1 in Calm results in HTTP error 400

Hi all!This might not be a Nutanix Calm specific problem, but since I’m experiencing the problem within Calm I’m posting a question here (as well). :)I'm grabbing a VM definition using GET https://${PCHostAddress}:9440/api/nutanix/v3/vms/$VMUUID. I convert the payload to an object using ConvertFrom-Json, manipulate it using .Remove() to remove the Status section (among other things), and convert it back to JSON with ConvertTo-Json.When I send the modified payload back using PUT https://${PCHostAddress}:9440/api/nutanix/v3/vms/$VMUUID, I get a "(400) Bad Request." Thinking I screwed something up when modifying the payload, I removed the part of the code that changes the object but still got the same error, even though I'm "just" converting the unmodified payload from and to JSON.Sending back the payload without converting from and to JSON results in a "(422) UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY”, as it should.In this case the -Depth parameter isn't the culprit as far as I can tell (I've added -Depth 10

1 year ago

Martin EdeliusTrendsetter

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How does the while loop in Calm actually work?

Hi!I need help wrapping my head around how the while loop in Calm works. The documentation is unfortunately not helpful at all. :/The first thing I can’t understand is why a while loop has a fixed number of iterations. This to me is a for loop. A while loop runs while a condition isn’t met.The second thing that’s confusing is the exit condition that I can set to Success, Failure, or Don’t Care. I guess that Don’t Care turns the while loop into an actual for loop?The Success or Failure condition is as far as I can tell completely out of my hands as this is based on the result of the execution of the task(s) within the loop and not a parameter I control. Do I have to fail a task on purpose to keep the loop going if I choose Success as my exit condition?What happens if I have multiple tasks in the loop, do all tasks need to fail or succeed for the exit condition to trigger?Is it possible at all to set a parameter in one of my scripts and then use that as an exit condition?Thanks.

1 year ago

Martin EdeliusTrendsetter

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Error "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'" when executing runbook via API

Hi.I’ve verified with this post and this post that I’m sending the parameters correctly and that the variables in my runbook are set to Runtime. I’m also doing a POST call but I still get an internal server error with the message "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'".Here’s the body of my call:{ "spec": { "args": [ { "name": "email", "value": "mema@tlke.se" }, { "name": "displayName", "value": "Mom MEmem" }, { "name": "userName", "value": "momemom" }, { "name": "accountName", "value": "MAM, MSM 1" }, { "name": "ticketID", "value": "794" } ] } } } }The runbook has multiple tasks, does that change how I send arguments to it?Thanks.

1 year ago

Jitendra Ingale

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Calm plug-in for JIRA Service Desk

Is there Calm plug-in available for JIRA Service Desk like it is available for ServiceDesk. Need this to automate ITSM/ITOM processes in Nutanix infra. Use case - automating windows patch management workflow from JIRA Service Desk by integrating it with Calm and patching tool (ManageEngine’s Patch Manager+)

1 year ago

PeterVanWeltVoyager

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API call runbook and pass variables

I have the same question as in topic (https://next.nutanix.com/calm-application-management-55/passing-variables-to-calm-runbooks-39356)I have created a runbook, configured a variable under the “Configuration” section of the runbook.I can launch the runbook via API, but it does not pass the value.I tried passing the below sample as the body of the request.What am I missing ? { "spec": { "args": [ { "name": "VariableName", "value": "value" } ] }}

1 year ago

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