VMware scan

The VMware scan module is a Microsoft Powershell module which uses the WMware PowerCLI API to connect to vCenter. The scanner produces an output scan file (.scav) per invocation.

The Powershell module is in the server/Modules folder. There is a sample start script scan_vcenter.ps1 that shows an example on how to start a scan.

This start file needs to be tailored to your environment. For more information see the inline documentation in the file.

Supported VMware versions

The scanner supports VMware 5.5 or newer.

Required permissions

The scanner requires read-only permission to vCenter and CIM-Interaction privileges to ESX hosts to read hardware details.

Open file format

The .scav file is a compressed .xml file which contains information that is later imported into the central OctoSAM Inventory database.

Tip

The provided Octodump utility can be used to decompress .scav files into human- readable .xml files. The file can also be decompressed using a standard ZIP utility such as 7-Zip.

Scanner source

The scanner is distributed as signed source. While you can see and possibly change the code, we do not support scanners with an invalid signature.