1 Virtual machine discovery key fields

1 Virtual machine discovery key fields

The following table lists fields returned by virtual machine related discovery keys.

Item key
Description	Field	Retrieved content
vmware.cluster.discovery
Performs cluster discovery.	{#CLUSTER.ID}	Cluster identifier.
Performs cluster discovery.	{#CLUSTER.NAME}	Cluster name.
vmware.datastore.discovery
Performs datastore discovery.	{#DATASTORE}	Datastore name.
vmware.dc.discovery
Performs datacenter discovery.	{#DATACENTER}	Datacenter name.
Performs datacenter discovery.	{#DATACENTERID}	Datacenter ID.
vmware.hv.discovery
Performs hypervisor discovery.	{#HV.UUID}	Unique hypervisor identifier.
	{#HV.ID}	Hypervisor identifier (HostSystem managed object name).
	{#HV.NAME}	Hypervisor name.
	{#HV.NETNAME}	Hypervisor network host name.
	{#HV.IP}	Hypervisor IP address, might be empty. In case of an HA configuration with multiple net interfaces, the following selection priority for interface is observed: - prefer the IP which shares the IP-subnet with the vCenter IP - prefer the IP from IP-subnet with default gateway - prefer the IP from interface with the lowest ID This field is supported since Zabbix 5.2.2.
	{#CLUSTER.NAME}	Cluster name, might be empty.
	{#DATACENTER.NAME}	Datacenter name.
	{#PARENT.NAME}	Name of container that stores the hypervisor. Supported since Zabbix 4.0.3.
	{#PARENT.TYPE}	Type of container in which the hypervisor is stored. The values could be `Datacenter`, `Folder`, `ClusterComputeResource`, `VMware`, where ‘VMware’ stands for unknown container type. Supported since Zabbix 4.0.3.
vmware.hv.datastore.discovery
Performs hypervisor datastore discovery. Note that multiple hypervisors can use the same datastore.	{#DATASTORE}	Datastore name.
vmware.vm.discovery
Performs virtual machine discovery.	{#VM.UUID}	Unique virtual machine identifier.
	{#VM.ID}	Virtual machine identifier (VirtualMachine managed object name).
	{#VM.NAME}	Virtual machine name.
	{#HV.NAME}	Hypervisor name.
	{#DATACENTER.NAME}	Datacenter name.
	{#CLUSTER.NAME}	Cluster name, might be empty.
	{#VM.IP}	Virtual machine IP address, might be empty. Supported since Zabbix 5.2.2.
	{#VM.DNS}	Virtual machine DNS name, might be empty. Supported since Zabbix 5.2.2.
	{#VM.GUESTFAMILY}	Guest virtual machine OS family, might be empty. Supported since Zabbix 5.2.2.
	{#VM.GUESTFULLNAME}	Full guest virtual machine OS name, might be empty. Supported since Zabbix 5.2.2.
	{#VM.FOLDER}	The chain of virtual machine parent folders, can be used as value for nested groups; folder names are combined with “/“. Might be empty. Supported since Zabbix 5.4.2.
vmware.vm.net.if.discovery
Performs virtual machine network interface discovery.	{#IFNAME}	Network interface name.
vmware.vm.vfs.dev.discovery
Performs virtual machine disk device discovery.	{#DISKNAME}	Disk device name.
vmware.vm.vfs.fs.discovery
Performs virtual machine file system discovery.	{#FSNAME}	File system name.