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VMware Monitoring Scope

You can fine-tune Netwrix Auditor by specifying the data types to include in or exclude from the VMware reports.

Exclude Data from the VMware Monitoring Scope​

Step 1 – Navigate to the %Netwrix Auditor installation folder%\VMware Auditing folder.

Step 2 – Edit the *.txt files based on the following guidelines:

  • Each entry must be a separate line.
  • A wildcard (*) is supported. You can use * for cmdlets and their parameters.
  • Netwrix Auditor treats lines that start with the # sign as comments and ignores them.
FileDescriptionSyntax
omitproplist.txtContains a list of object types and properties to exclude from change reports.object_type.property_name If there is no separator (.) between an object type and a property, Netwrix Auditor treats the whole entry as an object type. For example, to exclude the config.flags.monitorType property from reports, add the following line: *.config.flags.monitorType.
hidepropvalues.txtContains a list of object types and properties to exclude from the reports when the property has a certain value.object_type.property_name=property_value:object_type.hidden_property For example, to exclude the config.cpuAllocation.shares.level property when it equals to "Low", add the following line: *.config.cpuAllocation.shares.level=low:*.config.cpuAllocation.shares.shares.
proplist.txtContains a list of human-readable names for object types and properties to display in the reports.inner_type:object_type.property=intelligiblename Inner_type is optional. For example, if you want the reports to display the configStatus property as Configuration Status, add the following line: *.configStatus=Configuration Status.
omitstorelist.txtContains a list of objects to exclude from data storage and from reports. Netwrix Auditor still collects the audit data.Monitoring plan name, who, where, object type, what, property name, property value For example, to exclude internal logons: *,*,*,Logon,*,UserAgent,VMware vim-java* Precede the following characters with a backslash () if they are a part of an entry value: * , \ ? You can also specify characters with a hex value using the \xnnnn template. Netwrix Auditor trims the spaces. If they are required, use hex notation. For example: Word\x0020, where \x0020 means a blank character (space at the end). To omit changes with an unspecified Who value (shown in reports as system), use *, ,*,*,*,*,* (a blank Who field) instead of *,system,*,*,*,*,*. This space is an exception to the trimming rule — Netwrix Auditor preserves it as the blank Who value.