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Chapter 5 Discovery
To change this behavior for operating as a local user
1FromtheWindowsStartmenu,navigatetoSetting>ControlPanel>AdministrativeTools>Local
SecurityPolicy>SecuritySettings>LocalPolicies>SecurityOptions.
2 LocateNetworkaccess:sharingandsecuritymodelforlocalaccountspolicyfromthelist.
3Right‐clickNetworkaccess:sharingandsecuritymodelforlocalaccountsandclickProperties.
Networkaccess:sharingandsecuritymodelforlocalaccountsPropertieswindowappears.
4 SelectClassic–localusersauthenticateasthemselvesfromthedrop‐downmenuandclickApply.
Forsecurityreasons,itisrecommendedtoallowtheTelnetservertouseonlyNTLMauthentication,andto

disablepassword‐basedauthentication.
To view the current Telnet server authentication settings
1FromtheWindowsStartmenu,selectRunandtypecmd.TheCommandPromptappears.
2Typetlntadmn toviewthelocalhostsettings.
3Type
tlntadmn config sec=+ntlm toturnonNTLMauthentication.
4Typetlntadmn config sec=-passwd toturnoffpassword‐basedauthentication.
VI-SDK
VI‐SDKisaVMwareproprietaryAPIusedbythird‐partyapplicationstoqueryVMware’smodel,controlthe
virtualinfrastructure’sbehavior,andreceivenotificationsonchangesinthevirtualinfrastructure
environment.VI‐SDKalsoallowsyoutodiscover,configure,andmonitorallaspectsofVMwareESXservers
andVirtualCenter.
VI‐
SDKonVirtualCenteraccessesinformationabouttheentireVirtualInfrastructuredeployment,whereas
VI‐SDKonanESXonlyaccessinformationaboutthatESX.
VI‐SDKisimplementedbystandardwebserviceswithapublishedWSDLandrunsoverHTTPSbydefault.
AVI‐SDKURListheURLofthe
VI‐SDKserveronthetargethost.ThisURLisusedonallhostsinthepolicies
scopesoitdoesnotcontaintheserverpartoftheURL.Forexample,iftheURLis/sdk:925anddiscoveryis
doneagainsthost1.2.3.4,theactualURLusedtoconnecttothe
hostishttps://1.2.3.4/sdk:925.Bydefault,the
URLfieldisinitializedto/sdk,whichisthedefaultVI‐SDKURL.
Detail Discovery with VI-SDK
ADMusesVI‐SDKtoaccessaVirtualCenterto obtaininformationaboutESXServerandthevirtualmachines
thatareinstalledonthem.
VI-SDK Deployment Recommendations
ForVI‐SDKtoworkproperly,theWebAccessOptionmustbeenabledintheVirtualCenter.VMware
recommendsthatyouassignread‐onlypermissiontotheuseraccountthatiscreatedforDetailDiscovery.
Firewall Settings
VI‐SDKqueriesareperformedoverHTTPS.IfafirewallexistsbetweentheADMapplianceand
themonitored
network,TCPport443mustbeopenforconnectionsthatareinitiatedbytheADMappliance.
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OTEYoumusthavelocaladministratorpermissionstouseNTLM.
NOTETheVI‐SDKreportstheIPaddressofavirtualmachineonlyifVM‐toolsisrunningonthevirtual
machine’sguestOS.