These tables represent the state and status of the cmdb_ci_vm_instance in various flows such as vCenter Discovery and vCenter Events and the Business Rules which are triggered.

Table 1. vCenter Discovery that change various states and status fields related to Virtual Machine Instance
Source Script or Event name Field name VM previous state VM new state
vCenter Discovery VCenterVMsSensor Install Status Retired Installed
vCenter Discovery VCenterDatacentersSensor

Install Status

State

Operational Status

 Installed

Retired

Terminated

Non-operational
Table 2. vCenter Events that change various states and status fields related to Virtual Machine Instance
SourceScript or Event nameField nameVM previous stateVM new state
vCenter events

VCenterVmStateUpdater

powerOnEvtsToUse = [ 'VmPoweredOffEvent', 'VmPowerOffOnIsolationEvent', 'VmShutdownOnIsolationEvent', 'VmSuspendedEvent' ],

Installed status

State

Installed

Any

Installed

ON
vCenter events powerOffEvtsToUse = [ 'VmPoweredOnEvent', 'DrsVmPoweredOnEvent', 'VmRestartedOnAlternateHostEvent', 'VmSuspendedEvent' ],

Installed status

State

Installed

Any

Installed

OFF
vCenter events suspendEvtsToUse = [ 'VmPoweredOnEvent', 'DrsVmPoweredOnEvent', 'VmRestartedOnAlternateHostEvent', 'VmPoweredOffEvent', 'VmPowerOffOnIsolationEvent' ]

Installed status

State

Installed

Any

Installed

Paused
vCenter events VmRemovedEvent

Installed status

State

Installed

Any

Retired

Terminated
Table 3. Business rules that change various states and status fields related to Virtual Machine Instance and related Server
Business rule Field name Plugin name
Cascade operational status to Server Operational status Pattern designer
Cascade operational status to VM Instance Operational status Pattern designer
Sync ops status for CMDB CI

Operational status

Hardware status

Install status

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