{"id":1518,"date":"2017-03-20T11:01:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T11:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2017-03-28T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T09:36:57","slug":"vra-lego-icon-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/?p=1518","title":{"rendered":"vRealize Automation Lego Brick Icon Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is the first time in 7 years I release another VMware tool. Recently on twitter I asked the question can you still not change the blue lego brick icon in vRealize Automation that is used for the root level services icon.<\/p>\n

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Tim Hynes @railroadmanuk actually corrected me and showed me in the vRA doc that you can do that now as of v7.2. It consists of a bunch of REST calls. So I went \u00a0about trying to understand how to make a .Net tool to change said icon\u2026 as it was, Tim beat me with a Python script to make the change but I felt it still had merit in building a Windows tool to do the same.<\/p>\n

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So here it is. Click to download:\u00a0\n\tvRA Lego Icon Changer\t(4654 downloads\t)\n<\/a>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

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NOW BEFORE YOU USE THE TOOL BACKUP YOUR VRA VMS WITH ALTARO<\/a> or VEMBU<\/a> BACKUP. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019M NOT RESPONSIBLE\u00a0FOR ANY DAMAGE.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

YOU NEED VRA 7.2 OR GREATER<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Instructions:<\/p>\n

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  1. Load an icon into the tool that you wish to upload to vRA<\/li>\n
  2. Provide vRA details\n
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    1. vRA Appliance hostname or IP address<\/li>\n
    2. Admin account for the default tenant vpshere.local<\/li>\n
    3. Password for that admin account<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    4. Click Upload<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      If you mess up there is a revert button to bring back the lego brick.<\/p>\n

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      For now its not the prettiest UI but in v2 I will gloss it up\u2026 I just need feedback.<\/p>\n

      UPDATE: DON’T PANIC IF CHANGES HAVE NOT OCCURRED AS QUICKLY AS YOU LIKE. IN MY LAB I NOTICED THAT ITS NOT INSTANT AND A QUICK CLEAR OF YOUR COOKIES WILL SPEED UP THINGS!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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      Watch this animated gif showing how it works. Just Click on the picture below to\u00a0to play the video!<\/p>\n

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      Today is the first time in 7 years I release another VMware tool. Recently on twitter I asked the question can you still not change the blue lego brick icon in vRealize Automation that is used for the root level services icon. Tim Hynes @railroadmanuk actually corrected me and showed me in the vRA doc […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-downloads","category-vmware","tag-vrealize-icon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":3978,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}