Self-Service

This question has been asked a few times on this forum but has never been fully answered.When i try to delete a disk image, I get an error:Attribute _app_blueprint_template not set I can not find any mention of this attribute anywhere, and I can’t find any other way to delete the image. I tried the API method from this post but it has the same result.What’s the trick here?  

I have been relatively successful using a blueprint to define all the tasks and installations to create a solid VM. I now want to bake this VM into an image, so it has all those tasks already performed on it. I tried creating a VM template, but when i launch an instance from it, it has no Dynamic IP assigned. What is, or can someone point me to, the best practice/standard pattern for building a catalog of images with various apps and tasks pre-baked-in, so we don’t have to apply their installation every time?thanks!

I want to build a blueprint that provisions a CentOS8 VM. I have added a CentOS8 disk to the Catalog Items list in Prism Central. When I go to build/edit my blueprints in Calm/Self Service, the disk does not show up as an option in the Disks configuration field. How do i enable a disk image from the Catalog Items to be available in Calm blueprints?Thanks!

Or, “How does the ‘Check Login’ step actually work?”I consistently get a TLS error on any attempt to connect to the new VM from CALM. Every time. This is a blocker for me, as I can’t do much to the VMs during provisioning without this connectivity, and I can’t/shouldn’t do everything in the cloud-init step.  I am able to ssh into the new VMs successfully using the same credentials, so I know that the credential is correct, but I don’t think the credential is the issue - the error is happening before the system tries to use it. The screenshots below are from two different blueprint deployments.Script execution has failed with error: tls: first record does not look like a tls handshake.Could not connect to the service running at 1.2.3.4.From a higher level, how does CALM initiate the connection to the new VM when starting the “check login” step? The TLS handshake issue implies a mismatch of HTTP/S protocols, and/or mismatched TLS 1.1/1.2/etc versions. But this is supposed to be an SSH co

While making a rest call to update an endpoint, I am getting below error.{    "api_version": "3.1",    "code": 500,    "message_list": [        {            "details": {},            "message": "uuid",            "reason": "INTERNAL_ERROR"        }    ],    "state": "ERROR"}Steps performed:Make a get call to the resource UUID Remove the status key blog from the body received from step 1 update the value key with new IP update the spec_version from current set of 0 to 1 use this updated body to make PUT call to the resource UUID

Hi,My challenge is to verify a user’s input before she clicks ‘execute’ For example: I’ve created a variable named MyNumber with Data type = integerI want to verify that the provided value should not be higher than 3Using input type as Escript, I’ve tried:if @@{MyNumber}@@ > 3:    print(3)But when executing the runbook I get the warning that I have a cyclic dependency and the input is not available.Is there a way to achieve this input verification?Thanks

Hello We want to create an automation that any new VM based on its subnet (Vlan) will be automatically added to category.(I have tried to use a playbook, but it's not working.)How can we do that?Thank you

Hi,  I have 2 cluster and are planning to update the hypervisor and VM.1 cluster with 4 Dell nodes with Hyper V server 2019 Hypervisor and multiple VM with Window server and ubuntuanother cluster with 4 Dell nodes VMware Hypervisor and multiple of Window server ubuntu VM too. I have downloaded the LCM bundle package for Dell and the LCM packages and publish it onto the Dark web IIS server. However I can only see the Hardware build and the manifest.Where do I download the software build? Does the Software build package include the AOS and the Hypervisor?  Where does the Hypervisor package include? Hypervisor version ? If it is hypervisor version, does it means update the vulnerability or upgrade the version? Does the package include the monthly Microsoft vulnerability patches for window or SQL? What is the procedure or steps to do the entire updates? I do know the that hardware is the last Update Guest OS, node OS or update AOS first? Is there any available checklist that I need to d

HiIn task 1 I'm setting a variable with print(“test,secret=john”)How can I use the content of test variable (John) in task 2?Trying to use @@{test}@@ as a string will only return xxxx (the mask but not the content)Thanks,Avi

I am currently using Nutanix Calm API v3. After creating a crash-consistent VM recovery point using the POST endpoint /api/nutanix/v3/mh_vms/{vm_uuid}/snapshot and verifying that it exists on Prism Central, I attempted to revert the VM to this recovery point using the POST endpoint /api/nutanix/v3/mh_vms/{vm_uuid}/revert using the recovery point uuid in req body. The response has 200 status code but the task reference returned has task_uuid value of ‘something’. I also cannot see any alerts on PC indicating that the VM revert task has been attempted. May I know if anyone has experienced this issue before and how I might rectify this issue? Im not sure how to proceed since the API request appears to be successful. In particular, I would like to understand the circumstances under which Calm API returns tasks with uuid value of ‘something’. Thanks!

I have attempted to create a VM recovery point on Prism Central and revert it from the recovery point. However, I am getting an info-level message that the recovery point is degraded and that the recovery Point for VM failed to capture associated policies and categories because the network name is not available for the VM.The VM revert task also does not seem to have been executed as there is no event confirming success. The VM is created from a blueprint that is part of a project with a configured VPC, and I have already verified that there are no issues in connection between PC and PE. May I know possible reasons for why this is happinening and how I might resolve this? I have consulted the link https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000CyDeCAK but it seems to be targeted at VMs running on ESXi, our VMs run on AOS/AHV. Thanks!

Hi to all,I’m trying to deploy systems using nutanix calm and blueprints, the guest vm are windows server 2019. Is possible changing the hostname of windows using the vmname generated by blueprint?Thanks in advance

Hi everyone, i have a trouble with this error: the alert also sent a notification about this error: Discovered that the nucalm internal service is not working: “helios” I restarted all cluster service but there is no change. Then i checked my nutanix docker to log infomations about that, it showed helios still was running. And i follow KB-8621 to collect log of helios.log.1 with the same time in alert, it showed:So anyone can tell me what is the problem with my Calm service? I so appreciate to receive your helps.

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!

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?

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

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.

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 

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

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.

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.

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!

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

 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

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