The Service Discovery plugin connects with the vRealize Operations Manager product. This plug-in provides fabric admins with more information to better manage VMs at large scale. VMware Tools already collects some data from VMs, but it is not sufficient. This plug-in collects additional data and relays it to vRealize Operations Manager if the management feature is enabled. The plugin is enabled by default and can be disabled at any time by the guest administrator inside the guest.

Prerequisites

Ensure that 'vsock' driver is present or installed in windows guest successfully.

Procedure

  1. Disabling the Service Discovery plugin: This plugin can be disabled using one of the following approaches:
    • Using the toolbox command utility, execute the following commands:
      • For Linux

        vmware-toolbox-cmd config set servicediscovery disabled true

      • For Windows

        VMwareToolboxCmd.exe config set servicediscovery disabled true

    • Open tools.conf file and manually add the following section:

      [servicediscovery]

      disabled = true

  2. Enabling the Service Discovery plugin: This plugin can be enabled using one of the following approaches:
    • Using the toolbox command utility, execute the following commands:
      • For Linux

        vmware-toolbox-cmd config set servicediscovery disabled false

      • For Windows

        VMwareToolboxCmd.exe config set servicediscovery disabled false

    • Open tools.conf file and manually add the following section:

      [servicediscovery]

      disabled = false