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VMware vSphere

API credential, entered client by client.

Connects VMware vCenter to automatically inventory the client's virtual machines, powered on and off alike. Feeds the ReCyF inventory objective.

Beta

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What to create in the tool

The access is created in VMware vSphere, not in Vigicap. Vigicap never asks for an administrator's password: it expects an API credential that you create, that you can see, and that you can revoke without us.

Where to generate it

Créez dans vCenter Single Sign-On un utilisateur dédié, puis attribuez-lui le rôle « Read Only » sur l'objet racine vCenter en cochant « Propager aux enfants » — sans propagation, l'inventaire remonte incomplet sans erreur. L'adresse est celle de vCenter en HTTPS ; le certificat doit être reconnu (certificat de confiance ou reverse proxy).

Minimum role

Utilisateur vCenter SSO avec le rôle « Read Only » sur l'objet racine, propagé aux enfants.

Taken from the vendor's own role model, and checked before publication.

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What to enter in Vigicap

The exact fields of the connection form, in the order they appear. Values marked “secret” never travel back to the browser: they are encrypted at rest and deleted on disconnection.

The form starts with the instance address, entered separately from the fields below. The public catalogue does not yet publish whether this connector needs one, or what it looks like — so this list is exact about everything else, and silent about that first field.

  • Utilisateur vCenter

    Compte SSO dédié, rôle Read Only propagé depuis la racine.

    vigicap-lecture@vsphere.local

  • Mot de passesecret

    vCenter ne propose pas de jeton d'API : l'authentification est par compte.

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Per-client routing

The connection is made client by client: one credential per client, entered on that client's record. Nothing is shared between two clients, and disconnecting one leaves the other untouched.

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What it does, and what it does not do

ReCyF objectives it pre-fills

A reading feeds one objective of the ANSSI ReCyF framework. It PROPOSES it: the level only counts once a consultant has confirmed it.

  • #1 Recensement des systèmes d'informationInventory of information systems

Read-only

The reads are read-only: Vigicap writes nothing into the tool while reading it.

What is read, what is kept, for how long and with which rights: the same register, connector by connector, in the data inventory.

Verification

This connector was written from the vendor's documented API and has not yet been run against a real instance. It is marked “Beta” everywhere it appears.

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