Thanks so much for the help! You are exactly correct, I had failed to
include the "$FindBin::Bin/../lib/NetApp" path which is the one the
vcld uses as it executes from the /usr/local/vcl/bin path. I will
commit an alpha version once I have something working.
Thanks again!
Best,
Brian
Brian Bouterse
NEXT Services
919.698.8796
On Oct 5, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Andy Kurth wrote:
Hi Brian,
I downloaded and looked at the NetApp modules and I think I can see
why the problem is occurring. The package names defined in the
NetApp .pm files don't include "NetApp". The package lines in the
NetApp .pm's are simply:
package NaServer;
package NaElement;
Because of this, the "use" lines in your module must be:
use NaServer;
use NaElement;
This alone doesn't solve the problem as your code still won't be
able to find the NetApp modules. Add the following lines to
esxthin.pm before the "use" lines:
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../../../NetApp";
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib/NetApp";
The first line should allow the NetApp modules to be found if you
run your module directly using "perl esxthin.pm". When run in this
manner, $FindBin::Bin is the path to the directory where esxthin.pm
lives, usually:
/usr/local/vcl/lib/VCL/Module/Provisioning
The second line should allow the modules to be found when your
module is loaded by the vcld process. When vcld loads the module,
$FindBin::Bin is the path to the directory where vcld resides,
usually:
/usr/local/vcl/bin.
The paths listed above assume the NetApp files are in:
/usr/local/vcl/lib/NetApp
Hope this helps,
Andy
Brian Bouterse wrote:
I have a problem with the esxthin.pm and VCL says it can't load
VCL::Module::Provisioning::esxthin I've copied the esx.pm to
esxthin.pm, and updated all the names and checks for esx to esxthin
so that it is a valid VCL module. It is also installed correctly.
The module performs the same functionality as esx.pm and
successfully deploys and manages VMs.
The problem comes in when I add the following lines to import the
NetApp perl client libraries:
use NetApp::NaServer;
use NetApp::NaElement;
I do this just below: use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../../..";
The files are actually located at ../../../NetApp/
[NaServer,NaElement].pm so they should be found just fine. What's
more puzzling is that there are certainly no compilation errors
because 'perl esxthin.pm' produces the same output as 'perl esx.pm'
Is it finding the NaServer.pm file? If it is being found, why
can't VCL load it when there are no compilation errors in the
NaServer.pm file?
Seeing if anyone has any ideas...
Brian
Brian Bouterse
NEXT Services
919.698.8796
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Andy Kurth
Virtual Computing Lab
Office of Information Technology
North Carolina State University
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