Search for System name or device IP address using CLI

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

CLI command to find device discovered in smarts using device IP address or hostname. 

Environment

SMARTS-10.1.x

Resolution

To use similar query like findSystem in user interface, the equivalent command line option is to use findComputerSystem method.
This method takes IP address or System name as an argument.

Example: 

Run below command from <BASEDIR>/IP/smarts/bin

dmctl  -s <server-name> invoke ICIM_ObjectFactory::ICIM-ObjectFactory findComputerSystem  "#.#.#.#"
dmctl -s <server-name> invoke ICIM_ObjectFactory::ICIM-ObjectFactory findComputerSystem  "#####"