Containing ramblings about Cloud, End-user computing, software defined datacenter and IT-security related information.

Automatic Excel exports of phpIPAM to email. sh file to specify the URL and desired email recipient. py file to specify your SMTP server and sender address. Pop it in a crontab for scheduled exports. You can review the source in my GitHub.

How to audit VM reconfigurations and see what exactly changed? Having said that, what options exists for customers today? Custom Solution - A system that could periodically snapshot your VM configurations into some type of data warehouse or CMDB platform. There are many challenges here but the biggest one is efficiently capturing the changes and ensuring you do not impact the overall performance of your vCenter Server, especially with larger inventories.