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1 Virtual machine discovery key fields
The following table lists fields returned by virtual machine related discovery keys.
| Item key | ||
|---|---|---|
| Description | Field | Retrieved content |
| vmware.cluster.discovery | ||
| Performs cluster discovery. | {#CLUSTER.ID} | Cluster identifier. |
| {#CLUSTER.NAME} | Cluster name. | |
| vmware.datastore.discovery | ||
| Performs datastore discovery. | {#DATASTORE} | Datastore name. |
| {#DATASTORE.EXTENT} | JSON object with an array of {instanceName:partitionId}. | |
| vmware.dc.discovery | ||
| Performs datacenter discovery. | {#DATACENTER} | Datacenter name. |
| {#DATACENTERID} | Datacenter ID. | |
| vmware.hv.discovery | ||
| Performs hypervisor discovery. | {#HV.UUID} | Unique hypervisor identifier. |
| {#HV.ID} | Hypervisor identifier (HostSystem managed object name). | |
| {#HV.NAME} | Hypervisor name. | |
| {#HV.NETNAME} | Hypervisor network host name. Supported since Zabbix 5.4.9. |
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| {#HV.IP} | Hypervisor IP address, might be empty. In case of an HA configuration with multiple net interfaces, the following selection priority for interface is observed (since Zabbix 5.4.10): - prefer the IP which shares the IP-subnet with the vCenter IP - prefer the IP from IP-subnet with default gateway - prefer the IP from interface with the lowest ID This field is supported since Zabbix 5.2.2. |
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| {#CLUSTER.NAME} | Cluster name, might be empty. | |
| {#DATACENTER.NAME} | Datacenter name. | |
| {#PARENT.NAME} | Name of container that stores the hypervisor. Supported since Zabbix 4.0.3. |
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| {#PARENT.TYPE} | Type of container in which the hypervisor is stored. The values could be Datacenter, Folder, ClusterComputeResource, VMware, where 'VMware' stands for unknown container type.Supported since Zabbix 4.0.3. |
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| vmware.hv.datastore.discovery | ||
| Performs hypervisor datastore discovery. Note that multiple hypervisors can use the same datastore. | {#DATASTORE} | Datastore name. |
| {#MULTIPATH.COUNT} | Registered number of datastore paths. | |
| {#MULTIPATH.PARTITION.COUNT} | Number of available disk partitions. | |
| vmware.vm.discovery | ||
| Performs virtual machine discovery. | {#VM.UUID} | Unique virtual machine identifier. |
| {#VM.ID} | Virtual machine identifier (VirtualMachine managed object name). | |
| {#VM.NAME} | Virtual machine name. | |
| {#HV.NAME} | Hypervisor name. | |
| {#DATACENTER.NAME} | Datacenter name. | |
| {#CLUSTER.NAME} | Cluster name, might be empty. | |
| {#VM.IP} | Virtual machine IP address, might be empty. Supported since Zabbix 5.2.2. |
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| {#VM.DNS} | Virtual machine DNS name, might be empty. Supported since Zabbix 5.2.2. |
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| {#VM.GUESTFAMILY} | Guest virtual machine OS family, might be empty. Supported since Zabbix 5.2.2. |
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| {#VM.GUESTFULLNAME} | Full guest virtual machine OS name, might be empty. Supported since Zabbix 5.2.2. |
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| {#VM.FOLDER} | The chain of virtual machine parent folders, can be used as value for nested groups; folder names are combined with "/". Might be empty. Supported since Zabbix 5.4.2. |
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| vmware.vm.net.if.discovery | ||
| Performs virtual machine network interface discovery. | {#IFNAME} | Network interface name. |
| vmware.vm.vfs.dev.discovery | ||
| Performs virtual machine disk device discovery. | {#DISKNAME} | Disk device name. |
| vmware.vm.vfs.fs.discovery | ||
| Performs virtual machine file system discovery. | {#FSNAME} | File system name. |