vCenter Discovery

[Amit39]

Hi,

I am trying to setup discovery for vCenter. So I am currently working with respective team to get the read only access to vCenter.

Do I need to work on credential stuff for vCenter discovery and may I know the next steps i need to follow to setup a successful discovery for vCenter.

Appreciate your quick help.

Thank you.

Regards,
Amit

[Liju John1]

1. Install MID Server

2. Create vCenter Instance in sercicenow

3. create vCenter Event Collector

4. create a discovery schedule

vCenter Discovery and process flow

[Ravish Shetty]

Liju, is this documented somewhere on the doc site. couldn't find it.

[Patrick DeCarl1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

For vCenter, you just need a read only user within vcenter, create cred within SN and run a scan against the vcenter IP. SN discovery will do the rest.

"VMWare — vCenter credentials require a read only user that will be used to query the vCenter API when found as a running process or as a discovered vCenter appliance. "

Take a look at vCenter Discovery and process flow

[Amit39]

Here what I am getting after vCenter discovery setup.

- Got the vCenter read only access with the community domain account which I used to access target machine from MID.

- Setup the Credential under Vmware

- Also I have tried to login to the target vCenter with the same credential and it work absolutely fine.

Now when I trying the run the discovery again it;s fails and showing the below error.

Authentication failure with the local MID server service credential.

Failed to access target system. Please check credentials and firewall settings on the target system to ensure accessibility: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005

Quick help would me much appreciated.

Regards,

Amit