hello

when you set up the json file that section 

contains the “name” of each vcenter you will use in the host templates, in your case it is “00-srv-vcsa…...” 

it can be anything you want and is not related to the real host name, the “default” is the default one if you get the json out-of-the-box (and set it up manually in the .json file if you are on a earlier version of centreon

that name is the used in the “host macro” associated with the host template

for vcenter : 

change the container name “default" to the name you put in your config

you also need to change that macro on the ESXi Hosts if you add them manually without host discovery

if you get a container error in your check that comes from that macro and your “name”

Alternatively, you can put “default” in the “name” on that web page so you don’t have to change all your host (haven’t yet tried that new ui, so I don’t know if it works)

hi ​@christophe.niel-ACT ! so i tryed to change the container name to “default” in the .json file that doesn’t change anything. (the config file don't change when i restart centreon and stay with the name “vsphere_server” by default .

So i tryed to inclure this value into Host macro like this :

but no change nothing :

Did i need to downgrade in oldest version of centreon_vwmare to get the file with “.pm” extension?

Or maybe that can come to my Vcenter ( we updated our vcenter and ESX to  6.7 => 8 ..somes months ago). Maybe did i need to do something in the vsphere configuration (modules or other)

I don’t know :(

I was not clear, my arrow pointed to the “section”, the name is below, it’s the line with

name:”00-srv-vcsa.??????”

that is the thing that needs to match the “container” from your macro in the host

Hello  try it this way     (default = {‘url’ => ‘http(s)://hostname/sdk’,)  on the same on the same line

centreon_vmware_config = (
    vsphere_server => {
        'default'    => {'url'   => 'https://ip_hostname/sdk',
                          'username' => 'foo’,
                          'password' => 'foo_password'
        }
    },

);

1;

{
   "vsphere_server" : [
      {
         "username" : "centreon@vsphere.local",
         "name" : "default",
         "url" : "https://1.2.3.4/sdk",
         "password" : "Password"
      }
   ]
}

that’s what I have on one of my pollers where I used a “default” vcenter and it was upgraded to that when I upgraded the plugin

​@Trankilou that was the perl config, if you upgrade the plugin on the poller this file (centreon_vmware.pm) is converted to json

on a poller that was using the old centreon_vmware.pm and was auto upgraded to the json, here is what it looks like

{
   "vsphere_server" : v
      {
         "username" : "centreonuser",
         "name" : "default",
         "url" : "https://1.2.3.4/sdk",
         "password" : "SuperSecurePassword"
      }
   ]
}
 

note the “name” property is “default”, it could be anything you want and that must match the container name on the hosts config

​@christophe.niel-ACT  you right ! I remember when i installed the new Centreon VMWare Connector , that ask us if we want to keep the Oldest version “.pm” or if we want to up with the new “.json” ( the latter will be automatical empty by the futur connector vmware created )