Create plugin to monitor VMware Tools status about check-vmware HOT 4 CLOSED

Bonus (maybe a separate feature request?):

• toggle to extend matches to powered off VMs also

  • defaults to limiting results to powered on VMs only

  • if enabling this setting, other states would be checked

    • toolsNotInstalled
    • toolsOld

Looking at the current PowerShell plugin I'm using, it assigns severity based on the type of status for each VM:

• toolsNotInstalled
  • CRITICAL
• toolsNotRunning
  • CRITICAL
• toolsOld
  • WARNING
• default, "Unknown issue with VMware Tools, flag this for research"

This should be available in the initial public release.

The more I look back at the PowerShell plugins I created the more I realize how comprehensive they are for the time I invested in them. As Taravangian would say, this was one of my good days. It will require some effort to get the plugins 1:1.

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Looking at the current PowerShell plugin I'm using, it assigns severity based on the type of status for each VM:

From vim25\types\enum.go:

type VirtualMachineToolsStatus string

const (
    VirtualMachineToolsStatusToolsNotInstalled = VirtualMachineToolsStatus("toolsNotInstalled")
    VirtualMachineToolsStatusToolsNotRunning   = VirtualMachineToolsStatus("toolsNotRunning")
    VirtualMachineToolsStatusToolsOld          = VirtualMachineToolsStatus("toolsOld")
    VirtualMachineToolsStatusToolsOk           = VirtualMachineToolsStatus("toolsOk")
)

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Perhaps "evaluate-rps" and 'ignore-rps" would be better flag names, terminology?

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Perhaps "evaluate-rps" and 'ignore-rps" would be better flag names, terminology?

When written out as text in the results summary both seem to make sense as-is without additional explanation.

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