tiagomacul
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 vCenter Discovery

 

Requirements:

1) Figure out on which host the Vcenter is hosted meaning on windows or linux.IP

2) Then get the IP address of the host and credentials for the host.

3) You also need Readonly credentials for the VMware vCenter.

4) Port which should be open on this machines is 9443 and 5480

5) If this is hosted on windows then windows creds are enough to discover that vCenter.

6) Run a quick discovery on this IP to check if we are able to discover this or not.

7) If yes then create scheduled and add IP address to schedule and you are done.

😎 If any error please trouble shoot.

 

A. vCenter Discovery

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 see

How to install Mid Server on Windows/ Como instalar o MID Server em Windows?

01. Install MID Server
 find_real_file.png  02. Create vCenter Instance in sercicenow
 find_real_file.png  03. create a discovery schedule
   04. create a discovery schedule
   
   

 By Liju John

 

B. vCenter tables - where can i find 

Discovery load information in "VMware vCenter Instance" <cmdb_ci_vcenter> 

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And that table extends from Application <cmdb_ci_appl> and that extends from Configuration Item <cmdb_ci>

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Summarizing articles

 vCenter event collector

Data collected for VMware vCenter Server

Servicenow vCenter Discovery | Step by step Discovering VMware using vCenter Discovery. By Sohail Khilji 

 

 

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Sohail Khilji
Kilo Patron
Kilo Patron

How to Perform Servicenow vCenter Discovery | Step by step Discovering VMware using vCenter Discovery.

 

https://www.servicenow.com/community/next-experience-articles/how-to-perform-servicenow-vcenter-disc...

tiagomacul
Giga Sage

Sohail Khilji linked

Hellfried
Tera Contributor

9443 was dropped by VMware, since version 7 it is 5480 only.

But this is needed for classifying an IP as a vCenter. Discovery will be done through port 443 only. 

 

tiagomacul
Giga Sage

Hi @Hellfried Thank you, article updated

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