Getting Session information using the Python Module for VMware Horizon with filtering

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Since Horizon 8 it is possible to retrieve session information using the REST api’s. In the python module for Horizon I have translated that functionality to the get_sessions function. import requests, getpass, urllib, json import vmware_horizon requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings() url = input(“URL\n”) username = input(“Username\n”) domain = input(“Domain\n”) pw = getpass.getpass() hvconnectionobj… Continue reading

vCheck for Horizon : small updates & running it (automatically) from ControlUp

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Remark : as of the time I was writing this article the vCheck for Horizon  sba hasn’t been published yet. Contact me if you want me to send you the xml file. Last week I have been doing a few small updates to the vCheck for Horizon. The file with… Continue reading

How to add Rocky Linux (& Other not supported Linux Flavors) to ControlUp

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Disclaimer: I am a ControlUp employee but am posting this on my own. We officially only support the Linux flavors here: https://support.controlup.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001497917-Linux-Integration-with-ControlUp Disclaimer 2: I am NOT a Linux expert, I consider myself a basic user for most Linux things. With the recent rise of the truly community driven (beta)… Continue reading

The VMware Labs flings monthly for April 2021 – Easy deploy for AVI Loadbalancers & NSX Mobile!

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So it feels like yesterday that I created the previous flings post but April flew by and it’s almost summer, time for some more bad weather over here in The Netherlands. I see a three new flings and ten who received an update. One of the new ones already has… Continue reading

Creating a RDS farm using the Python module for VMware Horizon

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One of the goals and hopes I had with my 100DaysOfCode (I am writing this on day 100!) was that the Horizon REST api’s to create desktop pools and RDS farms would have been available at the end. Only half of that came out and with Horizon 8 2103 we… Continue reading

The VMware Labs flings monthly for March 2021 – New Website

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A day late but never late than never, this is your monthly overview with all the latest and greatest VMware flings. The flings site received a new fresh look head out to https://flings.vmware.com to have a look yourself. I am not sure if the (are they new?) tags for updated… Continue reading

Powercli script to assign a dedicated Horizon machine to multiple users

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Yesterday Robin Stolpe again reached out that he was having issues assigning multiple accounts to the same dedicated machine. He couldn’t get this running with the vmware.hv.helper and looking that with how it is implemented now it will probably never work. I decided to put together some of the functions… Continue reading

Powercli script to (forcefully) log off Horizon users

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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I wrote this blog post to log a user off from their vdi session. Today I got an inquiry from Robin Stolpe that he was trying to make it a script with arguments instead if the menu’s but was having… Continue reading

Pushing a new image using the VMware Horizon Python Module

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One of the REST api calls that where added for Horizon 8 2012 was the ability to push images to Desktop Pools (sadly not for farms yet). This week I added that functionality to the VMware Horizon Python Module. Looking at the swagger UI these are the needed arguments: So… Continue reading

Quickly grabbing all available REST api url’s for your Horizon version

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One of the challenges with the Horizon REST API’s is that they are not feature complete yet and if you ain’t on the latest version you need to scroll trough the api explorer or Swagger UI to find if the URL you need is available. I have created a short… Continue reading