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Limit the Virtual Hosts to be Inventoried

By default, the collect task inventories all the virtual hosts of a selected virtualization server. However, if you do not want to inventory all the hosts, you can limit the inventory collection to fewer virtual hosts. You can set the filters either while creating a collect task or later by modifying an existing collect task.

Note: You can set the filters only for VMware vCenter Server and Citrix XenServer.

Follow these steps:

1. Open the DSM Explorer and navigate to Computers and Users, All Computers, AM remote agent, Configuration, Collect Tasks.

   A list of configured and scheduled inventory collection tasks are displayed.

2. Right-click the task for which you want to set the filters and select Properties.

   The Properties for collect task dialog opens.

3. Select the host from the Virtualization Servers tab and click Properties.

   The Update Virtual Host Configuration Settings dialog opens.

4. Click the Filter tab and specify the filter at the data center, cluster, and host level for VMware vCenter Server. You can specify the filter only at the host level for Citrix XenServer.

   Note: You can use the asterisk (*) and percent (%) wild characters for all names used in the filter.

5. Click OK.

   The filters are set to the collect task. The collect task collects RVI data only from the selected hosts.

View all Virtual Machines Connected to a Virtualization Server

After the AM remote agent collects inventory, you can view the relationships between the hosts and virtual machines. Select the virtualization server under All Computers. The homepage tab on the right pane displays the managed guests in the Related Computers view under the Environment portlet.Similarly, selecting the same managed VMware guest under All Computers displays its related host server, VMware ESX - 790-1g2-i2duo, in the Related Host Computers view on the home page of the asset.

Note: Only managed guests, that is, those guests with a DSM agent installed on them, are displayed in the Related computers view.