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  1. Login to https://vss-portal.eis.utoronto.ca

  2. Click on the gear icon at the top-right corner

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    ⚙️  to expand the menu.

  3. Select VM Inventory and a window will show up listing a few default fields:

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  4. To add more fields, just type it for instance typing "VMware Tools" will show something like:Image RemovedSelect the field as desired in order any letter or specific attribute such as VMware Tools or Change requests:

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  5. Click on the field to add it to the list:

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  6. Click on EXPORT to submit the task, click on EXPORT.

  7. Follow up the report progress and download by going to the request history section.

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  8. When the report file is ready, click on the icon. 

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  1. Login to https://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca with your VSS Credentials or use your local VSS CLI install.

  2. Submit an inventory report with the vss-cli compute inventory mk command as follows:

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    vss-cli compute inventory mk vmtRunning vmtVersion tools_running_status tools_version change_requests --format csv
  3. Download inventory report:

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    vss-cli compute inventory dl <id>
    file                : ./34ad21c5-d341-4078-811a-e782ac04f5b2.csv
  4. Use any tool like csvfix, ExcelNumbers or OpenOffice to load the data

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    csvfix printf -fmt "%s %s %s"  34ad21c5-d341-4078-811a-e782ac04f5b2.csv
    vmtVersion vmtRunning name
    guestToolsCurrent guestToolsRunning 1712T-loving_colden_2
    guestToolsNotInstalled guestToolsNotRunning 1610Q-cocky_torvalds_12


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