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

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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

So if you want to list all of the Virtual Machines that are running an incompatible version of vmtools, you will run the script like so..

perl vmToolsStatus.pl --toolsOld
MNS
  Status toolsOld and Version 82663

LDAP
  Status toolsOld and Version 82663

RHEL 5.2
  Status toolsOld and Version 82663

Ramona
  Status toolsOld and Version 82663

Luminati
  Status toolsOld and Version 82663 

Or if you want to list all Virtual Machines that do not have vmtools installed...

perl vmToolsStatus.pl --toolsNotInstalled
SLES
  StatustoolsNotInstalled

X86_Model
  StatustoolsNotInstalled

Mario
  StatustoolsNotInstalled

ZCM
  StatustoolsNotInstalled

Bot Hunter
  StatustoolsNotInstalled

Or you can do it on a per Virtual Machine basis...

perl vmToolsStatus.pl --toolsOk --vm_name "Mail"
Mail
  Status toolsOk and Version 110268 

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