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HassanAlKak88
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Guest Introspection Plug-In - VMware tools

Hello,

We are planning to integrate McAfee MOVE with NSX as Guest introspection service.

McAfee MOVE use the VMware tools installed on each VM to apply the policies, but as a requirement the Guest Introspection Driver should be installed from VMware tools installer and by default it is not selected as below:

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our request is how can we install this drivers for a bulk of VMs ?

Thanks in advance,


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Regards,
Hassan Alkak
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RaymundoEC
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

One way can be by passing arguments (Setup.exe /s /v"/qn /l*v ""%TEMP%\vmmsi.log""" ADDLOCAL=ALL) on a simple batch  check on this :

Names of VMware Tools Features Used in Silent Installations

Automating VMware Tools Installation for Multiple Windows Virtual Machines

The other way that an take some time but works via the API so for that check this:

oldie but goodie:

Installing VMware Tools

check this actual reference :

VMware vSphere 6.5 Documentation Library

pay attention to "UpgradeToolsTask" and Managed Object- GuestOperationsManager (vimvm.guest.GuestOperationsManager)

the super easy way is to automate the thing with help of this script on the repo just clone it and adapt it:

vghetto-scripts/updateVMToolsPolicy.pl at master · lamw/vghetto-scripts · GitHub

I tried to use the API thru node.js but lack of time pulls me down to hell.

hope it helps just guessing all assumptions.

+vRay