Summary
ESX includes a CIM Object Manager (CIMOM) that implements a set of server discovery and monitoring features. With the VMware CIM SMASH/Server Management API, clients that use industry-standard protocols can do the following:
- Enumerate system resources
- Monitor system health data
The plugin is general enough to support other CIM compliant services and is not limited only to ESX. However the primary goal for developing the plugin was to expose ESX CIMOM in the vCenter Orchestrator. This affected the API design.
Features
Enables the following use-cases without being limited to them.
- Reporting Manufacturer, Model, and Serial Number
- Reporting the BIOS Version
- Monitoring State of All Sensors
- Monitoring State of All Sensors By Using Only the Implementation Namespace
- Reporting Fan Redundancy
- Reporting CPU Cores and Threads
- Reporting Memory Slots
System Requirements
vCO Server
Instructions
Install application according to the vCenter Orchestrator Installation and
Configuration Guide (PDF)
Video
Change Log
Engineers
 | Daniel VatovWorks in the Service Management group. |
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Hi, I have imported this plug in my environment. vCenter server 4.1. What next? I dont see any reference to this plugin on the web interface of orchestrator.
What do we need to do to activate it ? Also under the plugins section it says
Cim 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.582 no installation required.
Thanks
Hi,
The plugin exposes only scripting API.
This sample script may help:
/*
Obtain ticket for cim service.
*/
var esx = VcPlugin.allHostSystems[0];
var ticket = esx.acquireCimServicesTicket();
host = ticket.host;
sessionId = ticket.sessionId;
/*
CimClient is not serializable and can not be passed among scriptable tasks.
Instead pass host and session id and construct the client in every scriptable task.
*/
var client = new CimClient('https', host, 5989, sessionId, true);
var instances = client.getInstances('CIM_Chassis', 'root/cimv2');
for (var i in instances) {
System.log(instances[i].getClassName() + ':' + instances[i].getPropertyValue('SerialNumber'));
}
client.close();