vCenter Discovery - Get custom attributes in vSphere

[gustavo_and]

Hi,

Our organization is looking to bring all VMs that are managed in vSphere into our CMDB. For data consistency we have created custom attributes in vSphere to normalize the information no matter what kind of VM we are looking at. We would like to bring said attributes in the CMDB.

Now the question is how do i bring the attributes from vCenter/vSphere. I've looked through ServiceNow Documentation about Discovery/probes/patterns.

Now it seems that vCenter Discovery is particular on it's on way,  so it is very unclear if bringing custom attributes is actually faisable and if so how do you configure to get the end result?

Appreciate any input!

[Kieran Anson]

Hi,

If these were tags, SN would support bringing these in. Custom attributes require you to create a probe/sensor to collect that information which requires knowledge of scripting for a MID server, and interacting with the Java layer of the MID server

[gustavo_and]

Hi Kieran,

Do you have sources explaining on scripting/interacting with MID Java layer?

Thanks again!

[Kieran Anson]

I don't sorry - it's a dying skillset and not much documented. When ServiceNow introduced patterns, the art of probe/sensor creation stopped being taught 

[gustavo_and]

That's what i thought... Thanks anyways, appreciate the info!