vCenter Integration

Oscar Lopez · ‎08-11-2017

I want to populate the CMDB with VMs from vCenter, I just want to pull the VMs I don't need to procure VMs yet.

After reading the Wiki, I still don't know if at all SerivceNow Discovery and/or Orchestration is required to be enabled in order to just pull VMs.

I see that there is a related link "Discover vCenter Details" as per Wiki, does it means that it is actual Discovery feature running with a MID Server in order to "discover" the VMs?

bernyalvarado · ‎08-12-2017

Hi Oscar,

That's right. ServiceNow uses Discovery to discover the different VMs by interacting with VMWare VCenter.

As the documentation states:

Discovery can explore the VMware vCenter process running on a Windows or Linux host.

ServiceNow Discovery supports these vCenter versions:

vCenter versions 6.0 and earlier
vSphere version 5.5
vCenter appliance version 6.0 and earlier

See vCenter data collected for a description of the VMware architecture and component relationships.

When Discovery runs, a classifier called vCenter classifies the process running on a Windows or Linux machine.

Discovering vCenter CIs

After classifying vCenter, Discovery launches the VMware - vCenter Datacenters probe, which in turn launches specific probes that return information about ESX machines, virtual machines, and other vCenter objects.

Note: The vmapp port probe is also configured to launch the VMware - vCenter Datacenters probe.

If you use a domain account to access vCenter, specify the domain with the user name in the credential record in one of the supported formats such as Domain\UserName.

Thanks,

Berny

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bernyalvarado · ‎08-12-2017

Hi Oscar,

That's right. ServiceNow uses Discovery to discover the different VMs by interacting with VMWare VCenter.

As the documentation states:

Discovery can explore the VMware vCenter process running on a Windows or Linux host.

ServiceNow Discovery supports these vCenter versions:

vCenter versions 6.0 and earlier
vSphere version 5.5
vCenter appliance version 6.0 and earlier

See vCenter data collected for a description of the VMware architecture and component relationships.

When Discovery runs, a classifier called vCenter classifies the process running on a Windows or Linux machine.

Discovering vCenter CIs

After classifying vCenter, Discovery launches the VMware - vCenter Datacenters probe, which in turn launches specific probes that return information about ESX machines, virtual machines, and other vCenter objects.

Note: The vmapp port probe is also configured to launch the VMware - vCenter Datacenters probe.

If you use a domain account to access vCenter, specify the domain with the user name in the credential record in one of the supported formats such as Domain\UserName.

Thanks,

Berny

bernyalvarado · ‎08-12-2017

Here goes the links to the documentation. Please go through all of it. It will greatly expand your understanding of how discovery actually discovers VMWare WMs through VCenter.

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/istanbul-it-operations-management/page/product/discovery/concept/...

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/istanbul-it-operations-management/page/product/discovery/referenc...

I hope this helps and answers your question

Greetings!

Thanks,

Berny

Ravish Shetty · ‎05-14-2019

is this the usual ip based discovery or is this more like a service account based discovery like in azure?

i am finding it hard time finding documents to to actually configure the discovery.

adrianherdan · ‎11-17-2017

Hello Oscar,

I've developed a REST integration with vCenter 6.5 in order to populate the CMDB with VM's without the need to purchase Discovery or Orchestration. If you are interested please contact me adrian.herdan@gmail.com

Regards,

Adrian