vApp seems not supported

[Tontonitch]

Expected Behavior

All the Virtual Machines should be listed through the Icingaweb2 module, including the VM which are part of a vApp

Current Behavior

It seems that the info related to VMs which are part of a vApp are not printed (not gathered?) in the Virtual Machines page of the module.

Possible Solution

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

Create a VMware vApp and assign some vm to it.

Your Environment

• VMware vCenter®/ESXi™-Version: ESXi, 6.0.0, 5572656
• Version/GIT-Hash of this module: 1.0.0
• Icinga Web 2 version: 2.6.0
• Operating System and version: RHEL 7
• Webserver, PHP versions: Apache

[Thomas-Gelf]

Blind guess: they are missing because the TraversalSpec I'm using doesn't match them. From what I can remember they are similar to resource pools. Until now I haven't been able to play around with an environment where vApps are a thing. I'd love to implement this, and it would be great to also visualize vApps as such. Things to do:

• extend the traversal specification
• evaluate whether it is worth the effort to create a dedicated table for VirtualApps
• figure out when they have been introduced. This module supports 5.5, blind guess: requests might fail when asking for a VirtualApp on that version.

If anyone has the possibility to grant me temporary read access to a test environment with some VirtualApps configured in a realistic way this could help to speed things up. The more complex the environment (nesting, whatever) the better it is.

Cheers,
Thomas

[Tontonitch]

Hello Thomas,

If anyone has the possibility to grant me temporary read access to a test environment with some VirtualApps configured in a realistic way this could help to speed things up. The more complex the environment (nesting, whatever) the better it is.

Unfortunately I cannot give you such an access.
Nevertheless, I could gather various information from our environment (even the production) and send them to you by email (after reviewing if there are some confidential information). So, I could execute some vsphere cli commands, some sql queries on the module db,...