Command-Line Tools > VMware Inventory

RV-VM-Console (RayVentory.VM.Console.exe) is a command-line oriented tool for generating inventories from vSphere / ESX hosts using VMware’s restful management API. You may specify a single target on the command-line. If no target has been specified on the command-line then it will target all vSphere / ESX hosts that RVP knows.

If the the target is a vSphere cluster then VM-Console will create an NDI file for each ESX host in the cluster.

The command-line arguments are passed to RIW as name-value pairs. Flags are set by their name.

Usage

RayVentory.VM.Console.exe [-o <argument-name>=<value>]...

Table of Arguments and Flags

Name	Type	Description
auth	BOOLEAN	Its entered connection data will be saved.
basepath	TEXT	Path to store configuration files and results unless vsphereoutput was specified.
DeviceID	TEXT	RMS / RV network device ID for inventory binding.
encryptionKey	TEXT	Key for encryption and decryption of credentials.
help	FLAG	RMS / RV network device ID for inventory binding.
ignoreSSL	BOOLEAN	Ignore SSL / TLS connection warnings.
job	TEXT	Job tag / ID (this is supposed to be used by Raynet's inventory / discovery agents, only).
password	TEXT	Password of the user for authentication.
upload	TEXT	URL for uploading the result.
url	TEXT	The targets seb service URL. Usualy it has the form of https://myTargetHost/sdk.
user	TEXT	Name of the user for authentication.
vsphereconnections	TEXT	Filename for the vSphere connections file.
vsphereoutput	TEXT	Path for the output of the vSphere inventory.

Privileges

The RV VM Console needs a user with read privileges on the whole object tree of the vSphere infrastructure or ESX host. Depending on the permissions set, the user may need special permissions to extract sensitive details like the serial number / license key.

Ports in Use

•80(443) for communication with VMware‘s management API via HTTP(S) and for HTTP(S) upload to the data sink.