What are the ports for vCenter 7.0 discovery

Amie
Tera Contributor

‎06-09-2022 08:24 AM

vCenter 7.0 no longer has port 9443 available and this is the port that was being used in earlier versions of vCenters for classification. So I was hoping someone knows what the new port ServiceNow is using to discover these devices?

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suvro
Mega Sage
Mega Sage

‎06-09-2022 08:34 AM

HI,

 

Here you will get all the ports required

https://docs.servicenow.com/en-US/bundle/sandiego-it-operations-management/page/product/discovery/reference/r_DiscoveryPortsAndProtocols.html

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suvro
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In response to suvro

‎06-10-2022 01:55 AM

Hi Amie,

 

If your query is resolved. Please mark my answer as correct to close this thread. It will also benefit future users

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Jim Palmer
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

‎06-13-2022 03:55 PM

Amie,

From memory, all vCenters above 6.5 now use an SLES based appliance as their vCenter and the standard HTTP(s) ports TCP/80 and TCP/443 as their REST API ports.

https://developer.vmware.com/apis/vsphere-automation/latest/vcenter/

Which means if you want to run vCenter discovery, you need to open 80/443 on any firewalls. It also makes things slightly more messy as discovery now has to determine if the webserver found running on 443 is an application webserver or a vCenter and execute the correct patterns accordingly.

You may have to customise the a Shazzam vmapp port probe (See suvro's post) to include 443 & run a discovery schedule specifically for vCenters just so you get a cleaner discovery.