Fetching VMware vSphere Custom Attributes via Discovery

[GiorgioG]

Hi Community,

I’m working on extending ServiceNow’s OOTB VMware vCenter Discovery to retrieve vSphere Custom Attributes.

As documented, the standard probes (VMWarevCenterVMsProbe, Datacenters, etc.) only collect standard VM inventory/properties and do not query the CustomFieldsManager API to retrieve custom attributes fields.

Has anyone already deployed a working solution to fetch VMware Custom Attributes during Discovery?

Are there shared probe/sensor extensions, MID Server scripts, or KB articles you can point me to?

Appreciate any input!

[Tanushree Maiti]

Hi @GiorgioG 

Check these resources:

KB0813327 Understand vCenter Discovery process and troubleshooting 

Servicenow vCenter Discovery | Step by step Discovering VMware using vCenter Discovery.

https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/it-operations-management/itom-visibility/c_DiscoveryForVMwareVCent...

https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/zurich/it-operations-management/discovery/vcenter-probes.html

https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/xanadu/it-operations-management/itom-visibility/r_VCenterDataColle...

https://www.servicenow.com/community/cmdb-forum/vmware-vcenter-discovery-or-powercli/m-p/2518205

[GiorgioG]

Thanks, I've already read those documents, but I need help developing a Mid Server script include that contains the logic to retrieve custom attributes. Has anyone had the same use case to implement?