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VCenter time out

Hi All,

I was wondering if there is a setting in the registry where we can adjust the timeout setting for the Vccenter discovery and inventory. I am receiving timeout errors even when I try to use ESXQuery.  Please advise

@ChrisG 

 

Thanks,

Steve

(1) Solution

there is but if the timeout is not working on ESXQuery it probably wont work once you alter it in the registry either,

but.. If you want to extend the timeout for a VMware rule its important to realise that rule scanning for VMware is performed using an exe on the beacon called mgsipscan, for all intents purposes its pretty much a flexera variant of Nmap, so here is a cheat sheet on commands you can feed nmap: https://highon.coffee/blog/nmap-cheat-sheet/

one of which is:
--host-timeout TIME
Give up on target after this long

to give it this command you need to alter the following registry key on the beacon:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\ManageSoft Corp\ManageSoft\Discovery\CurrentVersion\DefaultPingSweepOptions

in my instance, below you can see I am feeding this -e eth4 which forces the scanner to only scan network card 4

pingsweepshot.PNG

you can use this to feed commands in, so I suspect most of the things on that cheat sheet I linked above including the timeout should work (although I have not tested that timeout command myself),

here is a previous log where I did this and I have highlighted the section that the registry key populates in the command as an example:

thisiswhereitaddsstuff.PNG

just be wary that here be dragons, this is generally not tested territory and if it isn't required I wouldn't recommend feeding it any additional commands, I only know about this due to a certain scenario when I wanted a rule to scan on my fourth network card only on the beacon and not any others

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-collins-7aa71a3b

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have you tried increasing the timeout on ESXQuery first to see what value works?
just curious as to if it may be timing out due to delay or just unavailability, in the case of the latter, the timeout adjustments in the registry wont really be relevant

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-collins-7aa71a3b

Yes I have increased the timeout on ESXQuery. I was wondering if there is a reg key I can add on the Beacon to extend the Vmware Discover & Inventory rule.

there is but if the timeout is not working on ESXQuery it probably wont work once you alter it in the registry either,

but.. If you want to extend the timeout for a VMware rule its important to realise that rule scanning for VMware is performed using an exe on the beacon called mgsipscan, for all intents purposes its pretty much a flexera variant of Nmap, so here is a cheat sheet on commands you can feed nmap: https://highon.coffee/blog/nmap-cheat-sheet/

one of which is:
--host-timeout TIME
Give up on target after this long

to give it this command you need to alter the following registry key on the beacon:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\ManageSoft Corp\ManageSoft\Discovery\CurrentVersion\DefaultPingSweepOptions

in my instance, below you can see I am feeding this -e eth4 which forces the scanner to only scan network card 4

pingsweepshot.PNG

you can use this to feed commands in, so I suspect most of the things on that cheat sheet I linked above including the timeout should work (although I have not tested that timeout command myself),

here is a previous log where I did this and I have highlighted the section that the registry key populates in the command as an example:

thisiswhereitaddsstuff.PNG

just be wary that here be dragons, this is generally not tested territory and if it isn't required I wouldn't recommend feeding it any additional commands, I only know about this due to a certain scenario when I wanted a rule to scan on my fourth network card only on the beacon and not any others

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-collins-7aa71a3b

Are you getting advice from experts as I think it is not easy to get answers of these types of questions.