Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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- VMware Infrastructure Discovery
- Supported Versions
- SSL Support
- Topology
- How to Discover VMware VIM Topology
- How to Run the Manual VMware VIM Connection Job
- How to Discover VMware ESX Server Topology over CIM
- Manual VMware VIM Connection Job
- VMware ESX Connection by CIM Job
- VMware ESX Connection by VIM Job
- VMware ESX Topology by CIM Job
- VMware ESX Topology by VIM Job
- VMware vCenter Connection by VIM Job
- VMware vCenter Topology by VIM Job
How to Discover VMware ESX Server Topology over CIM
This task describes how to discover the VMware ESX server inventory and virtual topology over CIM.
Prerequisites
- Ensure that CIM agents are enabled on the target ESX servers.
- Define CIM credentials.
This task contains the following steps:
- To discover the target IPs, run the Range IPs by ICMP job.
- To discover the connectivity to target ESX servers and their basic topology, run the VMware ESX Connection by CIM job.
- To discover the server inventory and virtualization topology, run the VMware ESX Topology by CIM job.
Note
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Discovery uses the CIM client, which is based on SBLIM library (http://sblim.wiki.sourceforge.net).
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Discovery accesses the following three namespaces to collect all required information:
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root/interop: To verify that the target server implements the Basic Server Profile and to find a reference to the UnitaryComputerSystem instance.
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root/cimv2: To collect server inventory information.
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vmware/esxv2: To collect virtualization topology information.
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