Setting up the connection to vhost

[geoff-maddock]

This looks like something that could be very useful to me. However, I’m having trouble connecting to my host.

Using a simple, existing SOAP client request, i can connect to my vhost using: ‘https://top.mydomain.net/sdk’

When trying to connect using this library, I tried:

$vhost = new \Vmwarephp\Vhost(‘https://top.mydomain.net/sdk’, ‘username’, ‘password’);
$virtualMachines = $vhost->findAllManagedObjects(‘VirtualMachine’, array(‘configStatus’));

But when I try to connect, I get errors:

PHP Notice: Undefined property: SoapFault::$detail in /var/www/smc/lib/vendor/vmwarephp/library/Vmwarephp/Exception/Soap.php on line 27
PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/smc/lib/vendor/vmwarephp/library/Vmwarephp/Exception/Soap.php on line 27
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Vmwarephp\Exception\Soap’ with message ‘HTTP: Could not connect to host. ‘ in /var/www/smc/lib/vendor/vmwarephp/library/Vmwarephp/Service.php:74
Stack trace:

I tried to use (removing the https:// and the sdk) ‘top.mydomain.net:443’

And I get a similar, but slightly less verbose error message:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Vmwarephp\Exception\Soap’ with message ‘ServerFaultCode: type. InvalidRequest: InvalidRequest Object
(
)
‘ in /var/www/smc/lib/vendor/vmwarephp/library/Vmwarephp/Service.php:74

Added a bit of debugging to Service.php, but i'm not sure what to do with the response:

error is – RetrieveServiceContentArray
(
[_this] => SoapVar Object
(
[enc_type] => 101
[enc_value] => ServiceInstance
[enc_stype] => ServiceInstance
)

)
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Vmwarephp\Exception\Soap’ with message ‘ServerFaultCode: type. InvalidRequest: InvalidRequest Object

Any suggestions? I’m connecting to a vCenter server running 5.5

[jvdminne]

Maybe late, but maybe usefull for others facing this issue.

I had this problem in vCenter 6 with an untrusted certificate (test setup).

I changed the Factory\SoapClient.php file, the method make() to be as follows, essentially disabling the certificate validation.

Please note that for a production environment I highly recommend against making this change.

function make(\Vmwarephp\Vhost $vhost, $useExceptions = 1, $trace = 1) {
        $context = stream_context_create(array(
            'ssl' => array(
                'verify_peer' => false,
                'verify_peer_name' => false,
                'allow_self_signed' => true
            )
        ));

        $options = array(
            'trace' => $trace,
            'location' => $this->makeRequestsLocation($vhost),
            'exceptions' => $useExceptions,
            'connection_timeout' => 120,
            'classmap' => $this->wsdlClassMapper->getClassMap(),
            'features' => SOAP_SINGLE_ELEMENT_ARRAYS + SOAP_USE_XSI_ARRAY_TYPE,
            'stream_context' => $context
        );
        $soapClient = $this->makeDefaultSoapClient($this->wsdlFilePath, $options);
        if (!$soapClient) throw new Ex\CannotCreateSoapClient();
        return $soapClient;
    }

[domin8r]

Cheers @jvdminne I was running into the same problem testing it locally with some tunneling (and therefore invalidating the certificate). Your fix is great for testing!