Service - Certificate

Class: VMware.Hv.Certificate
See also: CertificateData, ViewComposerWithVCSpec
Since: Horizon View 6.0

Service Description

The interface to fetch and validate certificates.

Methods

Methods defined in this Service
Certificate_Validate, Certificate_ValidateViewComposerLocalToVC

Certificate_Validate

Validate the certificate of the specified server.

Privileges

Privilege	Description
GLOBAL_CONFIG_VIEW	Global configuration (read-only) is required to validate a certificate.

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

_this

ManagedObjectReference

A reference to the Certificate used to make the method call.

spec

xsd:anyType

attributes needed to connect to the server. The valid types for this parameter are:

Return Value

Type	Description
CertificateData	null iff successful else CertificateData describing the server certificate

Faults

Type	Description
EntityNotFound	Thrown if any specified entity cannot be found.
InsufficientPermission	Thrown if the user does not have sufficient permission to perform the operation.
InvalidArgument	Thrown if any specified argument is invalid.
InvalidType	Thrown if the type of any specified argument is invalid.
UnexpectedFault	Thrown if an unexpected error occurs while performing the operation.

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vdi="urn:vdi" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="Certificate_Validate" type="vdi:Certificate_ValidateRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vdi="urn:vdi" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="Certificate_ValidateResponse">
            <complexType>
               <sequence>
                  <element name="returnval" type="vdi:CertificateData" minOccurs="0"/>
               </sequence>
            </complexType>
         </element>

Certificate_ValidateViewComposerLocalToVC

Deprecated. This API is being deprecated since View Composer will no longer be supported from Horizon version 2012 onwards.

Validate the certificate when View Composer instance is co-installed with Virtual Center.

Privileges

Privilege	Description
GLOBAL_CONFIG_VIEW	Global configuration (read-only) is required to validate a certificate.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
_this	ManagedObjectReference	A reference to the Certificate used to make the method call.
spec	ViewComposerWithVCSpec	Specification of View Composer co-installed with Virtual Center.

Return Value

Type	Description
CertificateData	null iff successful else CertificateData describing the server certificate

Faults

Type	Description
EntityNotFound	Thrown if any specified entity cannot be found.
InsufficientPermission	Thrown if the user does not have sufficient permission to perform the operation.
InvalidArgument	Thrown if any specified argument is invalid.
InvalidType	Thrown if the type of any specified argument is invalid.
UnexpectedFault	Thrown if an unexpected error occurs while performing the operation.

Show WSDL type definition

         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vdi="urn:vdi" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="Certificate_ValidateViewComposerLocalToVC" type="vdi:Certificate_ValidateViewComposerLocalToVCRequestType"/>
         <element xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:vdi="urn:vdi" xmlns:vim25="urn:vim25" name="Certificate_ValidateViewComposerLocalToVCResponse">
            <complexType>
               <sequence>
                  <element name="returnval" type="vdi:CertificateData" minOccurs="0"/>
               </sequence>
            </complexType>
         </element>