While watching the VMworld US 2019 video of Sean Massey presenting about getting started with the Horizon API’s I decided to check if the API explorer has been updated. To my surprise it was and it is good to see that several queries have been added besides the method’s that I previously found.
The new queries that I found are:
- DesktopAssignmentView
- Description:
- Desktop id + Desktop assignment data which will include desktop pool information, operation system, global entitlement.
- Description:
- DesktopHealthInfo
- Description:
- Desktop health Information. This data will be populated only for the desktops which support application remoting.
- Description:
- GlobalEntitlementSummaryView
- Description:
- Summary information about Global Entitlements.
- Description:
- MachineSummaryView
- Description:
- This View includes summary data of all entities related to this Machine
- Description:
So the DesktopAssignmentView seems to give a lot of similar data to what the DesktopSummaryData query already gives. They both give global entitlement data plus user assignment data. The big difference is that it gives way more detailed information about the desktop pool itself like vGPU settings. The names should have been DesktopInfo in my opinion.
Desktophealthinfo is created for the new Windows 10 App remoting and the monitoring for that. The globalentitlementsummaryview and machinesummaryview are linked to GlobalEntitlementInfo and MachineDetailsView from which they give a subset of data.
I hope to have a new blog post soon with more detailed information of what the new method’s and queries will bring but I wanted to update you with the fact that the api explorer has been updated as soon as possible.