Import script - Create a credential, then a folder object from a template and link credential plus add hostname and IP to folder

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to Devolutions support. Could you please confirm the error you are getting or better yet take a screenshot if possible ?

Best regards,

Eric,

Here are the errors:


Thanks,

MA

Hello,

Ok I am getting the same error as you. When you are calling the:

$website = New-RDMSession -Name "Test-website-55" -Type TemplateGroup -TemplateID "31fe93c9-248c-4362-9f30-d1b3f1b8f757" -Group "Acme Inc\Client assets\VMwareHost1\"

What type of session are you trying to create exactly?

The TemplateGroup you are calling has the structure you mentioned above? VMwareHost1 (folder) with the 3 objects http VMwareHost1, ssh VMwareHost1 and winscp VMwareHost1

Best regards,

It's a server-type folder object.
Yes, the template has the server-folder object at the top, and the connection objects in it.
My code only fails when trying to add the credentials, Host and IP. Name and Description work fine.

MA

Hello,

Ok I see the issue. The information on the folder is grouped differently then on a Session. So in this case on the folder if you want to change the IP or Host you would need to call:

$website.MetaInformation.IP = "IP"
$website.MetaInformation.MachineName = "Hostname"
$website.GroupDetails.Username = "Username"
$website.GroupDetails.SafePassword = "Password"

This information on a folder is like the below;
    <ConnectionType>Group</ConnectionType>
    <Description>Here is my description</Description>
    <Group>VMwareHost1</Group>
    <Name>VMwareHost1</Name>
    <UpdateDateTime>2021-05-18T20:23:50</UpdateDateTime>
    <GroupDetails>
      <SafePassword>/UvZdaz1yMA=</SafePassword>
      <UserName>Username</UserName>
    </GroupDetails>
    <MetaInformation>
      <IP>15464</IP>
      <MachineName>Adfg</MachineName>
    </MetaInformation>

You can get this via right-clicking on your session or folder and select Clipboard – Copy from here you can either paste in a text editor or use the Preview tab to view the XML.

Best regards,

Adding MetaInformation does not work with IP or MachineName. Same error:


With regards to credentials. I'd like to link to a credentials object not to add them into the object.

MA

I manually created my server-type object and noticed I get a different set of XML tags. I do not have "MetaInformation". The equivalent for the section for me is "GroupDetails" only with the Host and IP blocks. Since I'm not using embedded username/password those fields are missing as expected. See below:

<ConnectionType>Group</ConnectionType>
<CredentialConnectionID>6923dc9b-00d0-4125-853c-c6886561b3e9</CredentialConnectionID>
<CredentialConnectionSavedPath>Acme Inc\Client assets\VMware server</CredentialConnectionSavedPath>
<Description>in datacenter 5; rack 21; row 15/Dell ST: ABC123456</Description>
<Group>VMwareHost1</Group>
<Name>VMwareHost1</Name>
<UpdateDateTime>2021-05-19T00:25:46</UpdateDateTime>
<GroupDetails>
<GroupType>Server</GroupType>
<Host>VMwareHost1</Host>
<IP>192.168.1.33</IP>
</GroupDetails>

I noticed the extra block "MetaInformation" appear when I populated the Host and IP under the Asset information. This is not what I'm looking for. I need the Host and IP from the General tab.

Thanks,

MA

Hello,

Just wanted to confirm that with the information you found it is working or not ?

Are you still getting errors when running your script ?

Best regards,

Eric,

I was told that given the nature of my template (multi-object), I had to do a Get-RDMSession command to get that folder-object and then try to add the data to it. I still cannot add the IP to the General tab. Below is the updated code.

*** Additionally, I'm unable to run the code in one shot. I have separated the segments with blank rows (5 & 9) below to show how I'm running it to run successfully.

 1 Import-Module "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Devolutions\Remote Desktop Manager\RemoteDesktopManager.PowerShellModule.psd1" 
 2 $creds =New-RDMSession -Name "VMware server root" -Type Credential -Group "Acme Inc\Credentials\Vendors" 
 3 $creds.Credentials.UserName="root" 
 4 Set-RDMSession $creds
 5
 6 Set-RDMSessionPassword -ID $creds.ID -Password (ConvertTo-SecureString "monkey123" -AsPlainText -Force) 
 7 $group-templ = New-RDMSession -Name "VMwareHost5" -Type TemplateGroup -TemplateID "be661754-5b8c-4562-a689-627add40e55e" -Group "Acme Inc\Client assets\VMwareHost5\" 
 8 Set-RDMSession $group-templ
 9 
10 $group-obj = Get-RDMSession | where {$_.name -eq "VMwareHost5"}
11 $group-obj.CredentialConnectionID = $creds.ID 
12 $group-obj.Host ="VMwareHost5"
13 $group-obj.HostDetails.IP ="192.168.1.33"
14 $group-obj.Description = "in datacenter 5; rack 21; row 15/Dell ST: ABC123456"
15 Set-RDMSession $group-obj –Refresh

$group-obj.IP = "192.168.1.33" reports an invalid "IP" parameter.
Note I removed the "-Refresh" in lines 4 and 8 in an effort to expedite processing.

1. What is the correct field to populate the IP under the General tab?
2. What do you recommend to implement in a script where the code needs to run all at once?

-MA

Mario,

I tested the following on my end. Let me know if this makes sense for what you are trying to do. I am able to run this in 1 line.

Import-Module "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Devolutions\Remote Desktop Manager\RemoteDesktopManager.PowerShellModule.psd1" 
$creds =New-RDMSession -Name "VMware server root" -Type Credential -Group "Acme Inc\Credentials\Vendors" 
$creds.Credentials.UserName="root" 
Set-RDMSession $creds -refresh
Set-RDMSessionPassword -ID $creds.ID -Password (ConvertTo-SecureString "monkey123" -AsPlainText -Force) -refresh
$grouptemp = New-RDMSession -Name "VMwareHost5" -Type TemplateGroup -TemplateID "95d5739b-2fd9-4c7b-a1e0-3152774cff98" -Group "Acme Inc\Client assets" 
Set-RDMSession $grouptemp -refresh
$groupobj = Get-RDMSession | where {$_.name -eq "VMwareHost5"}
$groupobj.CredentialConnectionID = $creds.ID 
$groupobj.GroupDetails.Host ="VMwareHost5"
$groupobj.GroupDetails.IP ="192.168.1.33"
$groupobj.Description = "in datacenter 5; rack 21; row 15/Dell ST: ABC123456"
Set-RDMSession $groupobj –Refresh

My templategroup is as follows.

Server type folder >
HTTP entry
WinSCP entry
SSH entry

Post script it looks like this:




The folder took the changes:




On the entries, I set them up via the template to do the following:






Let me know how this works for you.

Best regards,

Eric,

I happily report your adjusted code worked beautifully and in one shot error-free.
Now I can start loading my real data from CSV and populate my structure.
Many thanks!

-MA