Trigger paap tasks remotely. E.g. by VMware Orchestrator

It's quite easy to startup a paap task through the integrated remote interface.
Every function can be accessed by a URI scheme.

Let's take an example:
VMware Orchestrator should initiate the paap Lifecycle Management after deploying a virtual machine into vSphere. We'll build a vCO action that can start any paap task which works on a virtual machine.

This action prepares the url and its parameters for the task and uses these input parameters:

Input parameters

• object - a reference to the virtual machine object
• paap_cfg_url - the base url of the virtual appliance e.g. https://paap.dom.local/paap/a2c
• paaptask -  the name of the task. In our case: lcm/cfgvm This initiates the lifecycle management

The script part of the action:

execute url script

  The URL requesting a task if of this schema:
  <base_url>+'/plugin/'+<task_name>+'/'+<function>
Example:
 https://paap.dom.local/paap/a2c/plugin/lcm/cfgvm/run

These parameters are added to the URL object:

• moref - the managed object reference on which the task should work.
• cloneTicket - is used by paap to duplicate the current session. The task will run with the same username and permissions as the vCO workflow.
• serviceUrl - is the sdk url of the virtual Center server

Calling .post on the URL object executes the task.
That's all.
You can watch the progress in the vCenter task list.

cfgvm progress