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The other day I was told to check and see if VMware Tools was installed on every Virtual Machine in our Cluster. I figured this was the perfect time for me to write another script to do this.

Here are a list of things that I want to have in the script…

• List all Virtual Machines and the VMstatus and Version if installed
• Check for toolsOK
• Check for toolsNotInstalled
• Check for toolsNotRunning
• Check for toolsOld
• And last but not least, able to do this either on a per Virtual Machine or on the entire Cluster

Well I was able to do all of the above in a nice Perl Script that I created. It can be downloaded here  vmToolsStatus.pl

{quickdown:36}
perl vmToolsStatus.pl 
        help              : Hiding the command line arguments [--help]
        --toolsOld             : This will print out all the Virtual Machines with an Old version of vmTools and you need to upgrade
        --toolsNotInstalled    : This will print out all the Virtual Machines with vmTools Not Installed
        --toolsNotRunning      : This will print out all the Virtual Machines with vmTools Not Running
        --toolsOk              : This will print out all Virtual Machines with vmTools running 
        --all             : This will print out all Virtual Machines with vmTools installed or not installed
        example           : Hiding the command line arguments --toolsOld 
        example           : Hiding the command line arguments --toolsOk 
        example           : Hiding the command line arguments --toolsNotInstalled 
        example           : Hiding the command line arguments --toolsRunning 
        example           : Hiding the command line arguments --all --vm_name "vm_name" 
        example           : Hiding the command line arguments --all  

Here is an example .visdkrc…

VI_SERVER = Virtual Console Server
VI_USERNAME = login
VI_PASSWORD = passwd
VI_PROTOCOL = https 
VI_PORTNUMBER = 443

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