Need to change device type from host to VM

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management On-Premise (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

We discovered linux virtual machine but it is showing device type as host in the Inventory. Our requirement is to change device type from host to VM.

What changes are required in the configurations to reflect the same?

Environment

• Release: DX UIM 20.4 or higher
• Component: Robot

Resolution

This is purely from a probe perspective. If you deployed vmware probe on a server, it shows as VM, but again for RSP probe it shows as Host.

If you have multiple probes, each probe will get a role assigned and based on rules in primary role will be finalized. That is hardcoded in the discovery server.

Primary role of a device is shown as 'Dedicated" in UI and the primary role depends on the monitoring probe perspectives.

If multiple probes are monitoring a single device, then that device can get multiple roles assigned.

However, the primary role is computed based on the role precedence. Highest precedence role becomes the primary role.

Listed below are the commonly used roles with precedences:

vCenter - 5
SwitchRouter - 4
Router - 3
Switch -3
VirtualMachine - 3
Host - 2
Device - 1