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ldoodle
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10 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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ldoodle
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10 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.

Had a deeper dig in to the docs at VMware vSphere Monitoring | LogicMonitor:

vCenter Server Appliance Host Properties

Property Value Required
vcenter.user vCenter read-only user Yes
vcenter.pass vCenter read-only password Yes

Note: For backwards compatibility with older generations of vCenter modules, if the credentials are not set, the follwoing vCenter User Properties are used. However, it is recommended to use the preceding vCenter Server Appliance Host Properties vcenter prefix when configuring devices.

vCenter User Properties

Property Value
vcsa.user vCenter read-only user
vcsa.pass vCenter read-only password
esx.user vCenter read-only user
esx.pass vCenter read-only password

Neither vcenter.* or vcsa.* seem to work work for me when esx.* is also present (unless as above I override esx.user directly on the resource). If I remove esx.* and leave just vcenter.* (or vcsa.*) at the parent for inheritence, vCenter works but ESX host do not.