Performing Autodiscovery via CLI

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Commissioning/adding new devices in NCM from CLI.

Environment

NCM - 10.1.x

Resolution

• Login to NCM AS (Application Server) with 'root' access.
• Set environmental variable as source /etc/voyence.conf
• Navigate to $VOYENCE_HOME/tools/bulk-import.
• Execute runCmd.sh, it prompts for UserName and Password. Provide User details who has System Administrator Privilege. 
• Command prompt will be available where user can type 'help' to get list of commands that are available to run.
• To perform auto discovery run as 

  seedAD <network name> <device server name> <Discovery type> hostfile <credentials>

Example:

cmd > seedAD <NETWORK_NAME> <DS_NAME> ping-sweep <FILENAME>.csv "global:<Credential>"

 

Where:

• Discovery type can be one of the following:
  • ping-sweep
  • snmp-sweep
• Hostfile is a tab separated format, similar to /etc/hosts. Sample can be found in $VOYENCE_HOME/tools/bulk-import and refer to examples.tar.
• Credentials can be one of the following:
  • global - global credentials have a global: prefix.
  • Network - network credentials are those that belong to the network provided in the command.

Command executed in Lab:

cmd > seedAD NCM_LAB <DS_NAME> ping-sweep importDevices-Single-Level.csv "global:<CredentialName>"

AD Output looks like below in console:

Added the Account:LAB_ACC to AD
**************AD Entry Details************
NameAUTODISC-CMDLINE-Thu Mar 06 22:13:24 EST 2025
Account Identities: <CredentialName>
PrivPass Identities:
CS Identities:
SnmpV3 Identities:

**************AD Entry Details************

AD job can be verified from NCM GUI:

NOTE:

1. If the credential names exists either in Global or Network and contains any spaces or other special characters, user must enclose the name using double quotes (").
   Example: If the global name is global: credname1, credname2, then the name would be entered as: "global:credname1,credname2".
2. If there are multiple credentials to be entered, user need to add the credentials first to NCM using importCredentials command available in $VOYENCE_HOME/tools/bulk-import after executing runCmd.sh

Log (commandLineUtil.log) available in $VOYENCE_HOME/logs

• Once AD is completed, exit the command prompt by typing 'quit'.