fusioninventory-esx (1) Linux Manual Page

fusioninventory-esx – vCenter/ESX/ESXi remote inventory from command line

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

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://myserver/ocsinventory

Description

fusioninventory-esx creates inventory of remote ESX/ESXi and vCenter VMware. It uses the SOAP interface of the remote server.

Supported systems:

ESX and ESXi 3.5

ESX and ESXi 4.1

ESXi 5.0

vCenter 4.1

vCenter 5.0

Active Directory users, please note the AD authentication doesn’t work. You must create a account on the VMware server.

Limitation

So far, ESX serial number are not collected.

Security

The SSL hostname check of the server is disabled.