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VMware discovery - get the network adapter type

Miles Clark
Tera Contributor

3 weeks ago

Hi - 

 

Looking in our vCenter environment, I see associated with the Network Adapters attached to Virtual Machines is an "Adapter Type".  An example value for this is vmxnet 3.  I don't see that this is picked up by ServiceNow discovery.

 

Any recommendations for pulling it into the CMDB?

 

Thanks!

 

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doug_schulze
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

3 weeks ago

Adapter type is not an available attribute on the network adaptor class. You must be talking about something else.

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Miles Clark
Tera Contributor
In response to doug_schulze

3 weeks ago

Hi Doug - thanks for getting back to me.    How would you refer to the item in the attached screenshot?

 

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doug_schulze
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

3 weeks ago

So assuming that is the virtual instance, we manage that through the VMWare - vCenter VM NICs probe with associated script includes and sensors.  Checked those and we do not capture that type value.  I wouldn't recommend it at all but you could see if you can tweak those queries and parsing to see if you can capture it , if its really necessary as we get pretty much everything OOB.