Hello everyone,
I'm learning about VMWare discovery but there's one thing I don't understand, that is how they are discovered. From the documentation I read that we need "read-only" access for the Vcenter Discovery to gather the required information, but how the infos gathering works? There are no command like ssh. from documentation I can see that:
These options are available for getting VMware vCenter data:
Discovery runs the VMware - vCenter Datacenters probe when it identifies a VMware vCenter process running on a Windows machine or detects activity with the vmapp port probe.
So Vcenter are discovered by launching multiple probes that in turn run MID SERVER SCRIPT INCLUDE.
I also read that
The ServiceNow® platform supports vCenter API versions 4.0 and higher.
but what is this API?
Here vCenter probes and probe parameters we are talking about
Center probes scan virtual machines using VMware's vSphere product suite. Each probe scans for different kinds of data, such as networks, NICs, and tags.
is this Vsphere the API that calls?
Sorry for the silly questions but there is this fundamental step that I am missing, thanks
documentation i'm referring to:
Discovery for VMware vCenter
Data collected for VMware vCenter Server
vCenter Discovery Required roles for License keys - Support and Troubleshooting
vCenter discovery: How identification works for ESX servers - Support and Troubleshooting
vCenter Discovery - Support and Troubleshooting
