FUSIONI...TORY-ESX(1)

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version 2.6 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 FUSIONINVENTORY-ESX 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to fusioninventory-esx — it's the little command-line baddie that does remote inventory of your vCenter / ESX / ESXi boxes. this is from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it is serving. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

fusioninventory-esx — vCenter/ESX/ESXi remote inventory from command line. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

run it like this, literally:

fusioninventory-esx --host <host> --user <user> --password <password>
--directory <directory>

🎀 Options

  • --help — this menu. the "wait what do I type" button. iconic.
  • --host hostname — the ESX server hostname. where your lil machine lives.
  • --user username — user name. ur login.
  • --password xxxx — user password. yes the xxxx is a placeholder, do NOT actually type xxxx bestie 😭
  • --directory directory — output directory. where the goods get dropped.
  • --tag tag — tag for the inventoried machine. label it, slay.

🦋 Advanced options

  • --dump — also dump esx host full info datas in a *-hostfullinfo.dump file. extra receipts, love that.
  • --dumpfile file — generate one inventory from a *-hostfullinfo.dump file. reverse uno card.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

run it like:

% fusioninventory-esx --host myesx --user foo --password bar --directory /tmp

and then — plot twist — you can import the .ocs file in your inventory server with the fusioninventory-injector tool. so like, feed the results back in:

%fusioninventory-injector -v --file /tmp/*.ocs -u https://example/plugins/fusioninventory/

ate. no crumbs. 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

fusioninventory-esx creates inventory of remote ESX/ESXi and vCenter VMware. it uses the SOAP interface of the remote server. that's the whole mechanism, iykyk. 🧚

⭐ Supported systems

  • ESX and ESXi 3.5
  • ESX and ESXi 4.1
  • ESXi 5.0
  • vCenter 4.1
  • vCenter 5.0
⚠️ Active Directory users, please note the AD authentication doesn't work. You must create a account on the VMware server. not me finding this out the hard way 😭 make a local account, fr fr.

💀 LIMITATION 💀

So far, ESX serial number are not collected. it's giving "we simply don't have that". lowkey sad but that's the tea. 🍓

🔥 SECURITY 🔥

The SSL hostname check of the server is disabled. yes bestie, that is a whole security note, so read it twice. 🙈

and that's the page!! go forth and inventory responsibly 🌸💖

this one's from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-23, filed under FUSIONI...TORY-ESX(1) — mwah, periodt. 💅✨

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