fusioninventory-esx - vCenter/ESX/ESXi remote inventory from command line
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Description
fusioninventory-esx creates inventory of remote ESX/ESXi and vCenter VMware. It uses the SOAP interface
of the remote server.
Supported systems:
ESXandESXi3.5ESXandESXi4.1ESXi5.0vCenter4.1vCenter5.0
Active Directory users, please note the AD authentication doesn't work. You must create a account on the
VMware server.
Examples
% fusioninventory-esx --host myesx --user foo --password bar --directory /tmp
You can import the .ocs file in your inventory server with the fusioninventory-injector tool.
%fusioninventory-injector -v --file /tmp/*.ocs -u https://example/plugins/fusioninventory/
Limitation
So far, ESX serial number are not collected.
Name
fusioninventory-esx - vCenter/ESX/ESXi remote inventory from command line
Security
The SSL hostname check of the server is disabled.
perl v5.38.2 2024-05-15 FUSIONINVENTORY-ESX(1p)
Synopsis
fusioninventory-esx --host <host> --user <user> --password <password> --directory <directory>
Options:
--help this menu
--host hostname ESX server hostname
--user username user name
--password xxxx user password
--directory directory output directory
--tag tag tag for the inventoried machine
Advanced options:
--dump also dump esx host full info datas in a *-hostfullinfo.dump file
--dumpfile file generate one inventory from a *-hostfullinfo.dump file
