How to Discover Your Virtual Environment
Configure CAM Discovery to discover any virtual machines on your network. First configure virtual environment discovery, then run discovery.
Configure Virtual Environment Discovery
To configure virtual environment discovery:
- Select .
- Select Configure.
- Select Add to enter information about where to look for virtual machines.
- Select an option:
- To query a range of IP addresses, select
IP Address Range.
- Enter the start and end IP addresses for the range, then proceed to step 5.
- To query a specific subnet on your network, select
Subnet.
- Enter the subnet address and mask to query, then proceed to step 5.
- If you know the name or IP address of the machine(s) you want
to query, select
Machine.
- Enter the IP address or name of the machine(s) to query, or select Browse to find machines to query.
- Proceed to step 5.
- To query a range of IP addresses, select
IP Address Range.
- In the VM platform drop-down list, select Hyper-V or VMware.
- For the option you selected in step 4, enter the Virtual Environment Credentials for the virtual machine.
- Select
Test Virtual Credentials to test the
connection.
- Select Test to verify that a connection can be established.
- Guest users can use either the same credentials as the virtual
environment, or separate credentials for guests that have WMI access:
- If you want guests to be able to use the virtual environment credentials to log in to the VM, select the Use virtual environment credentials for guests check box.
- If you don't want to allow guests to log in with virtual environment credentials, do not check the box, and enter the guest WMI credentials (User name and Password). For more information about guest credentials and WMI access, see Requirements in About Virtual Environment Discovery.
- Select Test Guest Credentials to test the connection.
- Select Test to verify that a connection can be established.
- Select
OK to save your configuration and return to
the
Configure Virtual Environment Discovery dialog
box. The check box for the configuration you just entered is selected, which
means those machines are queried the next time you run discovery or scheduled
discovery runs.
If you are configuring an IP address range or subnet, a dialog box opens to tell you how many IP addresses this configuration will attempt to query. Select Yes to save your configuration or, if the number of machines is not what you expect, select No to return to the dialog box and make changes. Although querying a large number of machines can take some time, it does not affect machine performance or the ability to run other tasks.
- Repeat steps 3 – 9 for any additional discovery configurations you want to add.
- Select the check boxes next to configurations on which you want to
run discovery.
- To run discovery on all of your configurations, select
Check All.
- or -
- Clear all configurations by selecting Uncheck All, then select the check boxes next to the individual configurations on which you want to run discovery.
- To run discovery on all of your configurations, select
Check All.
- Select OK to return to the Discover Virtual Environment dialog box. Virtual environment discovery configuration is now complete and available to run, as described next.
Run Virtual Environment Discovery
You can run virtual environment discovery immediately after
configuration, or later:
- To run virtual machine discovery immediately, select Discover.
- To run it later, select
Close. You can return to this dialog box any
time you want to run virtual machine discovery:
- Select .
The options you specified during configuration remain in effect until you change them.
Tips:
- Once virtual environment discovery is complete, press F5 or select to view the discovered virtual machines.
- Once configured, the virtual machine discovery process
automatically runs at 1:30 AM each Sunday by default.
- To turn off this scheduled task, select .
- Change how frequently discovery runs through the Windows Task Scheduler. Select Virtual Machine Discovery Task, then select the Cherwell Asset Management node.