Questions/concerns regarding the vCenter Event Collector using only Orchestration (w/o Discovery)

Anders Pr_stega · ‎10-02-2017

Hi

I am trying to find a good solution to updating the CMDB with vCenter CI's.

Obviously a near realtime vCenter cmdb update solution is perfect as introduced in the following appealing video (links to 12:15 min/sec)

Ask the Expert : Real-Time CMDB with Ben Yukich

Enabling the Discover vCenter workflow in the platform does not require a Discovery license as I read the following:

Administrators can configure instances with Orchestration to run the Discover vCenter workflow to po...

But - what I can't read is if this mean that we can use the vCenter Event Collector w/o Discovery as long as we have Orchestration? I am not sure if the following text implies a Discovery requirement:

In addition to finding vCenter data through the standard discovery process, Discovery can also updat...

The following link tells me that Discovery adheres to the Identification and Reconciliation framework:

You can control how Discovery handles duplicates using properties installed with Identification and ...

But - I can't find evidence that the inner workings of the vCenter Event Collector adhere to the Identification & Reconciliation framework too?

Sincirely,

Anders

tim_broberg · ‎10-05-2017

Look at that! - They obsoleted and deleted it. Apologies.

Looks like the good stuff is in script include VCenterVmStateUpdater.

automation.vcenter events trigger the "Discovery: Process vCenter events" script action which calls VCenterVmStateUpdater.process().

- Tim.

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tim_broberg · ‎10-02-2017

The VCenterExtension is in the mid server. It should create ecc_queue inputs with topic = MIDExtension:VCenterExtension without requiring Discovery.

The script include, VCenterEventProcessor, that parses the results on the ecc_queue is part of the Discovery plugin, however.

So, to do this without discovery, you would need to write your own script to process that input.

- Tim.

Anders Pr_stega · ‎10-02-2017

Hi Tim

Thanks for your reply. I will look into the matter with your words in mind and return after that.

-Anders

Anders Pr_stega · ‎10-03-2017

Hi again

How do I find the VCenterEventProcessor script include?

When I google VCenterEventProcessor I only find this thread 🙂

-Anders

tim_broberg · ‎10-04-2017

Well, it's in the Discovery application, so you would need to purchase or get a demo of Discovery.