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Virtual Host Inventory

CA ITCM supports platform virtualization, which is the encapsulation of computers or operating systems wherein their physical characteristics are hidden from users and they emulate the computing platform at runtime.

We use the following terms to describe the support for virtual host inventory in this document:

• A guest is the generic term for a virtual machine such as a VMware VM, Solaris domain and [non-global] zone, AIX logical partition, HP-UX nPar and virtual partition.
• One or more guests are handled by a virtual host, that is, software in the form of an application or a hypervisor. Examples are ESX Server and Sun System Controller.
• A remote agent is an additional part of an CA ITCM asset management agent that accesses a virtual host from another computer. This is typically done because CA ITCM software cannot be installed on the virtual host.

The virtual host inventory collect task can be configured in the DSM Explorer for those Windows, Linux, and UNIX computers and agents that have the AM remote agent installed, allowing asset management to gather information about the virtual hosts in your enterprise. Depending on the capabilities of the virtual host, it can collect data such as host type, name of the virtual machine, serial number, and memory size.

Note: The virtual host inventory collect task can only be created for a specific asset. Unlike the other types of collect tasks, the virtual host inventory collect task cannot be created for or linked to a user account. Navigate to the relevant asset to create this collect task.

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