Discovery of Appliances Device.

[nimmi25025]

Hi All,

We are trying to do discovery of appliances device but it’s not working. If any of you done the discovery of appliances device or know about it then please help us.

TIA

Nimmi

[doug_schulze]

Oh then we would (should) catch those when we do our port scan. You want to see the vmapp ports open and when we do we trigger the vcenter probe. So with your configured VMware user we should discover the vcenter appliance with no issues.  We just would not create a hardware device, it will just be the vCenter instance as we wouldnt be able to discover the base hardware, being its an appliance.

[cyked]

In my experience OVAs are not discoverable for one reason or another.

Since the VMWare vCenter instance is not a server the team building/deploying them needs to be responsible for getting them listed in CMDB.  I built a cat item for this that collects all the required info and creates references/rels where needed for things like serial number, NIC/IP/etc. and creates the record on the appliance table and we follow up to complete dependency mapping.

[nimmi25025]

Hi Doug,

In our case it's Linux based appliances where they can not give access on port 22 and ping is disabled as well.

Now we are getting this error "

Cannot connect, status is SSH_PROTOCOL_FAILURE. Received server DISCONNECT message: DISCONNECT: code: 15, reason: Illegal user name, description: Username doesn't contain '%%' or '@'"

Please help me in this scenario if you have any solution for this.

Regards,

Nimmi

[doug_schulze]

Well that reads as if it does have port 22 open but just doesn't like your username.  Regardless, are any other protocols available SNMP or HTTP perhaps?  You can build classifiers around those.

[nimmi25025]

Do we need separate SNMP classifier for appliances as we already have SNMP classifier.