Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
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.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

Universal CMDB

Discovery > Discovery Modules > Cloud and Virtualization > Virtualization > VMware > VMware Infrastructure Discovery > How to Discover VMware VIM Topology

How to Discover VMware VIM Topology

This task describes how to discover the VMware VIM Topology suite of applications. You can discover virtual machines (VM), ESX servers, networking and clustering resources that are running on VMware.

Note For details on running jobs, see "Discovery Control Panel" in the HPE Universal CMDB Data Flow Management Guide.

This task includes the following steps:

Prerequisite - Set up protocol credentials
- The WMI, Shell (Telnet, SSH, NTCMD), and SNMP protocols are required to discover hosts and host processes.
  
  These protocols require the user name, password, and domain name (the domain name is optional for NTCMD).
- The VIM protocol is required for all VMware jobs.
  - This protocol requires a user name and password.
  - Port Number is optional.
  - Use SSL.true: select if the VMware servers are configured to use SSL by default. false: select if the VMware servers are configured to use non-secured http.
  For credential information, see Supported Protocols.
Prerequisites – Set up VMware Infrastructure permissions
The VMware Infrastructure Management (VIM) protocol requires the following permissions:
- System.Read permissions for users performing discovery. Users should have permissions for all entities being discovered, and must have been assigned at least a Read-Only role.
- Global.Licenses permissions to obtain the total and available number of licenses for each License Feature. If the user does not have these permissions, these attributes remain empty.
Run Host discovery

To connect to each potential VMware server (vCenter, VirtualCenter, or ESX), discover its Host CI by running one of the Host Connection by Shell/WMI jobs.
Run Processes discovery

To connect to each potential VMware server (vCenter, VirtualCenter, or ESX), you must discover Process CIs that match certain criteria, and run Application Signatures discovery by running one of the Host Applications by Shell/WMI jobs.
Run VMware Infrastructure discovery
The Virtualization module includes two jobs for vCenter or VirtualCenter Server discovery and two for ESX Server discovery:
- If the VMware Infrastructure environment is managed by vCenter or VirtualCenter Servers, run the VMware vCenter Connection by VIM job, followed by the VMware vCenter Topology by VIM job.
- If the VMware Infrastructure environment includes unmanaged ESX servers (standalone) or the entire environment is unmanaged, run the VMware ESX Connection by VIM job, followed by the VMware ESX Topology by VIM job.
- VMware vCenter Connection by VIM Job
- VMware vCenter Topology by VIM Job
- VMware ESX Connection by VIM Job
- VMware ESX Topology by VIM Job