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ldoodle
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2 years 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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ldoodle
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2 years ago

I worked around it by overriding just esx.user property directly on the vCenter resource and that made it work (with an inherited esx.pass property).

I also just updated/installed any VMware DataSources then removed the esx.user property directly on vCenter resource, and within a couple of minutes vCenter dashboard is back to NaN.

So esx.user must not be just for ESX hosts.