SRM SOPA API. ProtectVms() call error

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Hello there.

I use SRM Appliance Management Version 8.3.0

My issue is to add a new VM into a protection group via SRM SOAP API. I have to use Python.

The protection group type in my SRM is Individual VMs (vSphere Replication).

to do that I need to call 2 methods from the ‘SrmProtectionGroup’ managed object: ProtectVms() и AssociateVms().

AssociateVms() is executed fine: VM is added to the group, but its mappings are not configured (protection status: Not Configured).

ProtectVms() call error:

…

<soapenv:Fault><faultcode>ServerFaultCode</faultcode><faultstring>

Required property vm is missing from data object of type SrmProtectionGroupVmProtectionSpec

while parsing serialized DataObject of type drextapi.ProtectionGroup.VmProtectionSpec

…

As I understand, It means I have to add one more argument with mappings’ definitions.

XML body from the python script:

data_protect_vms = “””

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/” xmlns:urn=”urn:srm0″>

<soapenv:Header/>

<soapenv:Body>

<urn:ProtectVms>

<urn:_this type=”SrmProtectionGroup”>srm-vm-protection-group-1271</urn:_this>

<urn:vms>vm-481</urn:vms>

</urn:ProtectVms>

</soapenv:Body>

</soapenv:Envelope>

“””

Obviously, it’s needed to add a string:

<urn:SrmProtectionGroupVmProtectionSpec>some_value</urn:SrmProtectionGroupVmProtectionSpec>

The question is which format should I use for some_value and how to get mappings and put them into some_value in a correct way?

Maybe I do everything wrong and a solution(managed object and methods) should be totally different?

Iron Castle Systems