VMWare Synchronizer - adding connection SSH
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Hi!
I read the great feature request of getting a filter into the synchronizer depending on hostnames, great Idea.
Perhaps it could be possible, in conjunction to get a Connectiontype ssh? Not only rconsole, rdp,...
So the synchronizer fetches the hosts depending on IP, and make them accessible by ssh?
I think that would be a great benefit in larger Unix/Linux/appliance - Environments with ssh-connections
cheers
Matthias
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Hello Matthias,
If you leave the connection type set to "default" and in the "settings" tab you configure a template of type SSH terminal, the synchronizer should create SSH terminal entries:
Can you try this out and see if it works for you? You will need to create your template beforehand, and you can access them through File > Templates > Entry templates.
Regards,
Hubert Mireault
Hello Hubert,
what an awsome tool !!
Yes that is the way to do it. In Germany we have a saying "Ich seh den Wald vor Bäumen nicht" (aprox. 'I can not see the forrest because of all the trees'), that default-template in conjunction with connection type was the point.
One last question, if I run the synchronizer, he puts the virtual center hostname into the hostname of the ssh-connection, not the $NAME$ (I tried to set it in my template, but no effect), am I on the right way... at the moment I do a "Batch edit", which works :-)
But never the less, I put my vote also into the Filter of VM via hostname :-)
cheers from Germany
Matthias
Hello Matthias,
I'm glad this works well for you!
In english, the expression is "miss the forest for the trees" (and I also learned we have an equivalent in french). It looks like no matter the culture, it can happen to any of us 😉 There's a lot of different configurations in RDM, so it's easy to miss them.
For your other question:
One last question, if I run the synchronizer, he puts the virtual center hostname into the hostname of the ssh-connection, not the $NAME$ (I tried to set it in my template, but no effect), am I on the right way... at the moment I do a "Batch edit", which works :-)
Can you clarify what you mean, maybe with a screen capture? You want the host of the synchronized entry to use the variable $NAME$ rather than having the host value directly written? I'm curious why you would need this, as the goal of the synchronizer is to keep this data up-to-date and allowing you the flexibility to change other values. If the host should change, I believe running the synchronizer again should update the host value.
I may be misunderstanding why you need the $NAME$ variable in your case, so I would appreciate more information on what you're trying to do.
Regards,
Hubert Mireault