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VMware vSphere import source for the Icinga Director
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Feature Request: Add property for operatingsystem #9

Closed xeiss closed 7 years ago

xeiss commented 7 years ago

I would need the Source Column (in Properties of a Sync rule) "guest.operatingsystem" for the info what operating system run on that virtual machine. For Windows hosts I sync this from Windows AD, but for Linux I need this information from VMware.

VMware has the info via config or via VMware Tools. In the GUI it shows the config value, when it does not can read out via VMware Tools. Not sure, which information you can read out from the VMware API. Perfect would be that same behavior, so there is always an info. Otherwise, we need two new fields. Possible example: "guest.operatingsystem" (config) and "runtime.operatingsystem" (info from VMware Tools).

Many thanks in advance.

Thomas-Gelf commented 7 years ago

Could guest.guestId eventually be what you're looking for? I have no test environment here right now, but as far as I remember that property should always be available, even without running guest utilities. That's the OS you specify when creating a VM - and might not reflect reality. Please look here for a list of possible values.

Eventually create a Data List in Director with mappings for the operating systems you need and use the Map Import Modifier to map imported values to their "nice" name.

pmalsenz commented 7 years ago

The OS field is already available: guest.guestFullName

Some column and field descriptions from VMware could use a bit improvement ;-)

xeiss commented 7 years ago

Thank you both, guest.guestId and guest.guestFullName are exactly that what I need. Imho the names are named misleading. guestOsId and guestOsFullName would be better. In first placed I thought that guestId is the internal id from vmware for that virtual maschine.