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View All Virtual Hosts

Virtual hosts appear as normal nodes under All Computers along with all the other computers.

If you want to view only virtual hosts, you can create a custom computer query based on the class ID of the computer.

To view only virtual hosts

  1. Right-click Queries in the DSM Explorer and select New from the context menu.

    The Select Target dialog appears.

  2. Select Computers and click OK.

    The Query Designer dialog appears.

  3. Click General Information, Computer.

    The Select Field dialog appears.

  4. Select Classification, Class or subclass from the list view.
  5. Select the appropriate class from the Classification drop-down list in the Arguments group box. Relevant options are as follows:

 

Class

Subclass

 

Unclassified

 

 

 

RTOS

Sun RTOS

 

Virtual Host Machine

 

 

 

HP Chassis

IBM Server

 

Hypervisor

 

 

 

VMware ESX

 

 

VMware ESX Server 3.5

 

 

VMware ESX Server 4.0

 

 

Sun eXtended System Control Facility (XSCF)

  1. Click OK.

    You are returned to the Query Designer.

  2. Click OK.

    The Save Query dialog appears.

  3. Enter a name for your query and Click OK to save it.
  4. The query is created with the specified name and added to the Queries, Computers subfolder.
  5. Select Run Query from the Tasks portlet.

    The results are displayed under the All Computers pane.

Note: Since there is no agent component installed for virtual hosts, no jobs or configuration can be applied to them. Hence, the asset context menu is disabled.