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Werk #11686: Add VMs of ESX hosts to HW/SW inventory

Component Checks & agents
Title Add VMs of ESX hosts to HW/SW inventory
Date Nov 10, 2020
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.0.0b1 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

This werk adds an inventory plugin that inventorizes virtual machines of an ESX host (or all managed hosts if the queried system is a vCenter). To make use of this feature you need to have set up the monitoring via the rule "VMWAre ESX via vSphere", and check the box "Virtual Machines" in the section "Retrieve information about ...".

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