trigger alarm when VMWare Tools installed??

[Humphry]

Hi friends,

I'd like to set up an alarm to be fired when the client installs the VMWare Tools. Is it possible to do it? I haven't seen any event defined to do this.

Thanks in advance.

[lamw · Accepted solution]

I don't believe there is an event defined for tools installation as you mentioned, when you right click on a powered on VM and do a tools installation it's calling - MountToolsInstaller which does not return any value back for you to monitor. It most likely generates a task in which you can probably search the system and trigger of off that, but nothing in real time at least default from the vSphere API.

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[Humphry]

Thanks, lamw. I supposed that, but I wanted to be sure.