You provide product information about an extension by setting properties when you instantiate the Extension object in the program that manages the extension. The product information that you set appears in the vSphere web client.

The EAM Sample Solution instantiates the Extension data object in the Manager.java class. The sample solution sets Extension product information properties directly in Manager.java, but you can set the property values in configuration files that the program that manages the extension accesses.

Prerequisites
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Download the vSphere ESX Agent Manager SDK.

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Verify that you have set up and started the EAM Sample Solution in an application server.

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Verify that you have opened eam_work_folder\src\com\vmware\eam\sample\solution\Manager.java in an editor.

Procedure
1

Provide a description for the extension by creating an instance of the Description data object and passing it to Extension.

  private Extension createExtensionObject() {
    Extension extension = new Extension();
    [...]
    Description description = new Description();
    description.setLabel("EAM Sample Solution");
    description.setSummary("This extension provides the EAM Sample Solution.");
    extension.setDescription(description);
    [...]
  }
2

Provide a version number for the extension by calling the Extension.setVersion() method.

private Extension createExtensionObject() {
    Extension extension = new Extension();
    [...]
    extension.setVersion("0.1");
    [...]
  }
3

(Optional) Change the value of the version property in Manager.java.

4

Provide information about the vendor of the extension by calling the Extension.setCompany() method.

The EAM Sample Solution does not set the vendor property. You can set it by adding the following line of code to Manager.java.

private Extension createExtensionObject() {
    Extension extension = new Extension();
    [...]
    extension.setVersion("0.1");
    extension.setCompany("your_company");
    [...]
  }
5

Provide URLs to Web pages for the product and for the vendor of the extension by creating an instance of the ExtExtendedProductInfo data object and passing it to Extension.

The EAM Sample Solution does not set the companyUrl property for ExtExtendedProductInfo. You can set it by adding a call to to the ExtExtendedProductInfo.setCompanyUrl() method in Manager.java:

private Extension createExtensionObject() {
    Extension extension = new Extension();
    [...]
    ExtExtendedProductInfo extExtendedProductInfo = new
    ExtExtendedProductInfo();
    extExtendedProductInfo.setCompanyUrl("your_URL");
    extExtendedProductInfo.setProductUrl("your_product_url");
    extension.setExtendedProductInfo(extExtendedProductInfo);
    [...]
  }
6

(Optional) If you modified Manager.java, save your changes and rebuild and redeploy the EAM Sample Solution.

7

(Optional) View your changes in the vSphere web client.

If you changed the values of the version, company, companyUrl, and productUrl properties, your changes appear in the Summary tab in Solutions Manager.

You provided product information about an extension by setting properties in the Extension and ExtExtendedProductInfo data objects.

What to do next

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