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Collecting Inventory with the Stand-Alone VMware Inventory Agent

When you have registered all target VMware servers with the stand-alone VMware inventory agent, you can run the agent to collect VMware inventory from the registered VMware servers. Follow these steps:

  1. Use the following command to run the stand-alone VMware inventory agent. The agent executes, collects inventory from each of the servers listed in the esxquery.ini file, and saves the inventory files (.ndi) in the output folder specified in the esxquery.ini file.
 esxquery.exe -a

The agent runs and displays inventory success messages. The following code shows an example output:

C:\Flexera\VCenter Query>esxquery.exe -a
servername: found VMware vCenter Server v4.1.0
servername: inventory generated successfully
  1. Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the output folder (C:\VMwareInventory\Inventories). You should see an .ndi file for each of the target ESX servers. Each .ndi file contains inventory for a target ESX server, as well as all of the virtual machines registered with it.
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The stand-alone VMware inventory agent also collects inventory for the virtual machines that were switched off during the inventory collection process.