How do i determine my ESX IP with vMA?

[bug_juice]

Hi,

I'd like to find out what my ESX host's IP is from within vMA but i don't see a esxcfg-vswif command in vMA. Is there another way when connected to an ESX host via vMA to get the IP of vswif0?

Thanks in advance

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Use the Perl SDK to query the HostSystem entities. An example of this is within the vGhetto repository on sourceforge.net

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[bug_juice]

Don't suppose you know which script has that sample in it? :smileygrin:

[lamw · Accepted solution]

You can get this using the vSphere APIs, but it's not available in any canned VMware script because you should not be configuring the vswif interface remotely, especially if you only have one.

Though if you want to query it, here is a script I just wrote that gets you what you need:

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