View host and vcenter patch levels within Aria.

[chriscoates]

I recently installed Aria. Initially it was to replace some of the functionallity we lost with the retirement of the Skyline Collector tool. One thing I need it to get a view or report that shows the patch levels of all hosts and VCenters.

I have looked but cant find anything like that. Our compliance team used that information in skyline and are now on us to replace that ability. 

Thanks

[RickVerstegen]

There are OOTB views to get this information:
You can use "Host Inventory" view which displays the ESXi version, for example 8.0.3-24280767.
For vCenters you can use "vCenter inventory" view which displays the vCenter version, for example 8.0.3-24322831.

It gives you also additional information in those views. You could also leverage those views and make a custom dashboard that suits your needs.

[chriscoates]

I am looking at Inventoyy and see that I can drill down to an individual host and see the version but that wont help. I have hundreds of hosts and need to see them all with version together.. 

[Pawel Koc]

View -> Host Inventory

Default view that you can open.
It contains ESXi Version:

You can create the report and ACC that view. And that's all.

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