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ldoodle
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11 months ago

VMware ESX host (no vSphere/vCenter) auth problem

Hi, In vSphere I have added a local account (Read-only) for LM to poll it. This works fine. However when trying to add an actual ESX host I get access denied. In vSphere for each host, I can see th...
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Mike_Moniz
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11 months ago

Taking a quick peak at a sampling the latest vmware datasource code in Exchange. It looks like:

  • VMware_ESXi_* looks at esx only
  • VMware_vSphere looks at vcenter first, then vcsa, then esx
  • VMware_vCenterAppliance_* looks at vcsa first, then vcenter, then esx
  • VMware_vCenter_* looks at vcenter first, then vcsa, then esx

I didn’t really test these, but I would make sure you have the latest Vmware PropertySources and DataSources.