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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

If I spot check some of the VMware DataSources…

some are like this:

Example: VMware_vCenter_VMInterface

def user = hostProps.get("esx.user")
def pass = hostProps.get("esx.pass")

others are like this:

Example: VMware_vCenterAppliance_Power

def user = hostProps.get('vcenter.user') ?: hostProps.get("vcsa.user") ?: hostProps.get("esx.user")
def pass = hostProps.get('vcenter.pass') ?: hostProps.get("vcsa.pass") ?: hostProps.get("esx.pass")