How to Scan Esxi 6.5 or vSphere 6.5
I really don't want to scan the vm's that are associated with vsphere I just want to get the physical hardware information. I have tried this a few different ways and haven't had any luck.
We have created a user in vSphere and gave it read-only permissions. We than added this user as a Vmware-Credential in the credential store. I have tried to use this user to scan the individual hosts as well as the vcenter server. I always get a "credential not configured" error. I really, really DO NOT want to use and administrative user to do this nor do I want to use a local user on the esxi host.
We have created a user in vSphere and gave it read-only permissions. We than added this user as a Vmware-Credential in the credential store. I have tried to use this user to scan the individual hosts as well as the vcenter server. I always get a "credential not configured" error. I really, really DO NOT want to use and administrative user to do this nor do I want to use a local user on the esxi host.
Should I be doing this some other way (IPMI, SNMP)? Has anyone else had success doing this?