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Werk #11140: ESX: Add type labels for ESX vCenter, servers, VM

Component HW/SW inventory
Title ESX: Add type labels for ESX vCenter, servers, VM
Date Jul 6, 2020
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.0.0i1 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

This werk picks a feature (werk 8143) originally only available in v1.6.0 into the master.

The following labels are discovered automatically for ESX based hosts in Checkmk: cmk/vsphere_object:vcenter, cmk/vsphere_object:server, cmk/vsphere_object:vm.

Accordingly to the new introduces parse function, the inventory plugin is adapted.

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