- Install Python on the same server as Ops Center Automator.
- Download the gzipped source file from the following site: https://www.python.org/downloads/source/.
- Decompress the gzipped source file and run following commands:
- ./configure
- make
- sudo make install
- In the Administration tab of Ops Center Automator, use the Shared Properties Settings to configure the python install path to the shared property of the Python Interpreter Path.
-
Install
pyvmomi (Python library for
Ops Center Automator to talk with vCenter).
- For an online environment, follow these steps:
- Run the following command on the command line to download the library and install it into the Python environment: pip install pyvmomi .
- Verify that the library is installed correctly by using the following command: pip list pyvmomi.
- For more information go to https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi.
- For an offline environment, follow these steps:
- Download the following seven libraries in an online environment:
- six (https://pypi.org/project/six/)
- urllib3 (https://pypi.org/project/urllib3/)
- certifi (https://pypi.org/project/certifi/)
- idna (https://pypi.org/project/idna/)
- charset-normalizer (https://pypi.org/project/charset-normalizer/)
- requests (https://pypi.org/project/requests/)
- pyvmomi (https://pypi.org/project/pyvmomi/)
- For each library, decompress the downloaded file and run following command: python setup.py install .
- Download the following seven libraries in an online environment:
- For an online environment, follow these steps:
Python and the Python Library are now installed on
Ops Center Automator.