Viewing vSphere Inventory

From the Home tab, select Inventory > vSphere to view the vSphere page. From here, you can view in depth information of all vSphere resources, as well as any tags or policies related to those resources. This information is displayed in a dashboard or a resource page.

Note: You need to add a vCenter before you can view any information. See Adding vCenters to CloudControl.

Dashboard Pages

Dashboard pages are a visual overview of your resources and their security postures. For vSphere, you can view the global dashboard, and dashboards for each vCenter, virtual machine, and host.

The dashboard pages display the following information: 

• An overview of all vSphere resources discovered by CloudControl.

• Current configuration hardening status in a pie chart.

• Recent history of your configuration hardening activities. You can view either assessment or remediation results. Clicking on the different links shows you the following information: 

  • Click the date and time link to see the assessment that was completed at that time.
  • Click the template name link to view the details of the particular template.
  • Click the policy name link to view details about the policy.
  • Click the ESXi host name to view details about that host.
• Trending information about your configuration hardening posture.

Click the expander icon in each tile to open the Views page with detailed information. You can also click the options under the Views menu. From the Views page, you can click the x icon to return to the original location.

Resource Pages

Each resource page displays a list of the resources for each type, along with other important information per resource, such as details and tags. You can also use the Actions menu to assign and unassign tags to a selected resource.

Most of the table cells have links that you can click to view additional information. Depending on the type of resource, it will either open a new tab (for example, clicking a name in the Name column of a vCenter), or it will open a pop-up window on the same page (for example, clicking on the links in the DataCenters column).

The following vSphere resources have their own resource pages and sub pages: 

• Management: vCenters

• Compute (hosts, datacenters, clusters, virtual machines, and folders)

  Note: The hosts resource page also displays the following: 

  • For configuration hardening, CloudControl displays an icon that immediately lets you see the configuration hardening of the host. If the host has not been assessed, the icon is grey. If the configuration hardening templates run against the host are above the global compliance threshold, then the icon is green. If the configuration hardening templates run against the host are below the global compliance threshold, then the icon is red.
  • For trust attestation, CloudControl displays a green check for hosts that are trusted, and a red x for hosts that are not trusted.
• Network (switches, network, port groups, and folders)
• Storage (datastores and folders)