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

[Anders Pr_stega]

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

[Anders Pr_stega]

I'm working on it 🙂

-Anders

[Anders Pr_stega]

Hi Tim

I have enabled the Discovery plugin, but that doesn't bring any new VCenter* script includes to to table (in more that one sense )

This is the script includes starting with VCenter before and after enabling the plugin:

Any suggestions?

-Anders

[tim_broberg · Accepted solution]

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.

[Anders Pr_stega]

Thank you for your help Timothy!

[mayank_ihs]

Hi, 

We are implementing Vcenter Event collector in our environment to set the hardware status of servers. Like Power ON/OFF.

Are there any specific permissions we need to have on theVcenter side for the events to work ? 

Thanks 

Mayank