Is there any way to stop SIM from automatically trying to run discovery on VMware guests?

[Costeam]

We have SIM 6.3 and we have discovered a number of ESX container hosts using WBEM/WMI credentials. Some of them Blades some of them DL380 etc.

We do not maintain separate credentials for the guests that reside on these ESX container hosts.

The problem is that we are finding that SIM routinely tries to discover the guests and does so using the same WBEM/WMI credentials that were configured for the discovery of the underlying container host. Quite why SIM makes the leap that the credentials of the container would work for all its guests is a mystery, as a result our security teams are seeing numerous AD authentication failures everyday.

In reality the status of the guests is not something we want SIM to be worrying about, we use vSphere for that, we are really only interested in the status of the container hosts and would rather that SIM ignored them. Yet it does not seem possible to prevent this odd behavior.

Anyone have any ideas?

[BPE]

check the help for options->discovery->global settings

you can switch of the automatic discovery for VM's but you need to delete the already discovered vm inside SIM.

afterwards the problem should be fixed.