Smarts ESM: How is WMI discovery enabled?

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:




How do I enable WMI discovery in Smarts ESM?

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

For any host that needs to be discovered through WMI in SMARTS ESM you need to do the following:

1. Enter the WMi credentials for the host at the ESM manager server.

2. Enable WMI probe in ESM by editing the esm.import file-
    set the IsWMI flag to TRUE. 


3. Discover the host in ICMPONLY mode in IP domain manager.

4. This should automatically trigger the WMI discovery on that host and following are the query that will be executed on that host for the respective host components.

cisTemp = ""SELECT * from Win32_OperatingSystem"";  cisTemp = ""SELECT * from Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration"";
cisTemp = ""SELECT * from Win32_Processor"";  cisTemp = ""SELECT * from Win32_ComputerSystem"";  cisTemp = ""SELECT * from Win32_DiskDrive"";  cisTemp = ""SELECT * from Win32_LogicalDisk"";  cisTemp = ""SELECT AdapterType,DeviceID,Description,ProductName,Status,MACAddress,MaxSpeed,Manufacturer,TimeOfLastReset FROM  cisTemp  ""SELECT * from Win32_PhysicalMemory""; cisTemp = ""SELECT * from Win32_PortConnector""; cisTemp = ""SELECT * from Win32_SystemEnclosure"""