vSphere Web Services API


Data Object - ProfileMetadata(vim.profile.ProfileMetadata)

Returned by
QueryHostProfileMetadata
Extends
DynamicData
See also
ExtendedDescription, ProfileMetadataProfileOperationMessage, ProfileMetadataProfileSortSpec
Since
vSphere API Release 4.0

Data Object Description

This data object represents the metadata information of a Profile.

Properties

Name Type Description
description*ExtendedDescription

Property which describes the profile
keyxsd:string

Type of the Profile
operationMessages*ProfileMetadataProfileOperationMessage[]

A list of ProfileOperationMessage for this profile.

Since vSphere API Release 6.7
profileCategory*xsd:string

Identifies the profile category that this subprofile is a part of. The value of this string should correspond to the key value of a ProfileCategoryMetadata object's key in its id property.

Since vSphere API Release 5.1
profileComponent*xsd:string

Property indicating that the subprofile described by this ProfileMetadata object is declared in the profileTypeNames of the specified profile component. The value of this property should correspond to the key value of the ProfileComponentMetadata object's key in its id property. This property should not be present for subprofiles that are not directly declared in the profileTypeNames property of a ProfileComponentMetadata object.

Since vSphere API Release 5.1
profileTypeName*xsd:string

Type identifier for the ApplyProfile

Since vSphere API Release 5.0
sortSpec*ProfileMetadataProfileSortSpec[]

Property that determines a sorting order for display purposes. If the list contains more than one sort spec, then the precedence should be determined by the list order (i.e. sort first by the first spec in the list, then sort by the second spec in the list, etc).

Since vSphere API Release 5.0
Properties inherited from DynamicData
None
*Need not be set
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