Gave up and used the method below. Would have been nice to be able to get more info about the machines
This is the engine that will audit a given vCenter for new machines and what is currently not being backed up. Management of new servers has to be manual rather than using a VMware rule to select boxes as they are created.
rpt_period=240 # the reporting period, in hours, for bperror
$VM_current= # the file that is a copy of$tmp_file2 from a
# previous run. If current list contains machines
# that are not the previous run baseline list
# then they must be new machines
query="vmware:/?filter=vCenter Contains '$vCenter' AND Powerstate Equal poweredOn"
sudo bperror -l -hoursago $rpt_period | grep 'EXIT STATUS' | \
awk '{ printf"%s,%s\n",$12,$14}' | sort -u | grep -v SLP_ | \
grep -v client > $tmp_file1
sudo nbdiscover -noxmloutput "$query" > $tmp_file2 # the new baseline
grep ^+ $tmp_file2 | sort | awk '{ print tolower($2)}' |\
tr -d '"' > $tmp_file3
for box in $(cat $tmp_file3); do
grep -i $box $VM_current > /dev/null 2>&1
rc=$?
if [ "$rc" -ne "0" ] ; then
printf "%s,New\n" $box >> $out_file_1
fi
#
grep -i $box $tmp_file1 >> $out_file_2
rc=$?
if [ "$rc" -ne "0" ]; then
printf "%s,\"NO BACKUPS\"\n" $box >> $out_file_3
fi
done
# now merge all the out_files into a final csv file
