Search Index Find By Ip
Finds a virtual machine or host by IP address, where the IP address is in dot-decimal notation.
For example, 10.17.12.12. The IP address for a virtual machine is the one returned from VMware tools, ipAddress.
Required privileges: System.View
The unique identifier for the managed object to which the method attaches; the serialized managed object reference for a request has the form moType/moId, in this case SearchIndex/{moId}.
The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 8.0.2.0 APIs.
{
"datacenter": {
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
},
"ip": "string",
"vmSearch": false
}The dot-decimal notation formatted IP address to find.
if true, search for virtual machines, otherwise search for hosts.
The virtual machine or host managed entity that is found. If no managed entities are found, null is returned. Only a single entity is returned, even if there are multiple matches. If called directly on an ESX server with vmSearch set to false, returns the host managed entity if the address matches any of the Console OS IP addresses.
{
"_typeName": "string",
"type": "string",
"value": "string"
}