Discovery VMware infrastructure - no IP address

[Ermanno Travagl]

Hi all,

I'm discovering a VMWare infrastructure but I found out that for all the virtual machine CIs there is no address IP information.

Could it be a misconfiguration or anythins missing?

Thanks,

E.

[corina]

Hello Ermano.

Did you have the chance to check this?

Orchestration vmware support plugin - IP address

[Dave Ainsworth]

Hi Ermano,

The VM instances that you are discovering via vCenter won't have IP addresses. The docs link for data collected is here:

vCenter data collected

If you discover the virtual servers via the usual Windows/Linux discovery, the IP addresses will be discovered. Discovery will then attempt to link the server record to the VM instance using UUID and create a   Virtualized by::Virtualizes between the server and VM instance.

As Corina suggests, there might be a way to change what we bring back but this would be a customisation and I am not sure you would get every IP address if the server has multiple interfaces.

Regards,

Dave

[Cedric Creton]

Hello, I'm very interested by such Custom.

The fact is that we have much more running VMs than locally-discovered systems (win or SSH).

Our infra is spread around the world in datacenter and offices... getting Ip addresses from Sys teams requires a big amount of patience and energy.... I can however check them by using a vcenter client, exporting, vlookup... despite we have the opportunity to colelct that and store it in cmdb_ci_vmware_instance table.

I'm conscious there are fluently several IPs by for a VM, but would like to explore that way

But I'm quite new in S-now and javascript... totally lost in the script includes for vcenter. 

Any help Welcome!

best regards

Cedric