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Introduction

Inventory reports are useful to provide an offline overview of your virtual machines. When you submit an inventory report request, a CSV or JSON file will be generated with the selected attributes.

Step-by-step guide using the VSS Portal

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The VSS Portal only supports CSV format. To submit a VM inventory report in JSON format, please use the VSS CLI.

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. 
   

Step-by-step guide using the VSS CLI

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 vmtVersiontools_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, Excel, Numbers 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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