This article provides steps to view the list of services registered with Lookup Service in vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO). Lookup Service provides a central location for services to publish their functionalities as service endpoints. vCenter Services and external solutions can query Lookup Service to list the services and its endpoints for specific functionality. Sample service registration is available in Related Information of this KB.

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.x
VMware vCenter Server 6.0.x
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5.x
VMware vCenter Server 7.0.x
VMware vCenter Server 5.1.x
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.7.x
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0.x
VMware vCenter Server 5.5.x

List of Services Registered with vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO):

To obtain a list of services that are currently registered to SSO follow the steps below:
In 

• vSphere 7.x
• vSphere 6.x
• vSphere 5.5
• vSphere 5.1

 

vSphere 7.x

Appliance:

Open an SSH session to the vCenter Server Appliance 7.0 with embedded Platform Services Controller and run:

vSphere 6.x

Appliance:
Open an SSH session to the Platform Services Controller Appliance 6.x or vCenter Server Appliance with embedded Platform Services Controller and run:
Note:

• Lstool.py script is only available on PSC or Embedded vCenter, this script will not work on Management Node (vCenter Server with an External Platform Services Controller)
• Lstool.py script is located on path /usr/lib/vmware-lookupsvc/tools/ on VMC releases

Windows:

1. Log into the Windows Platform Services Controller 6.x or vCenter Server with embedded Platform Services Controller
2. Open a command prompt window
3. Run the below command to list the services registered with the Platform Services Controller and save the output to c:\psc_services.txt

4. Open the c:\psc_services.txt output in Notepad:

vSphere 5.5

Appliance:

Open an SSH session to the vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 and run:

/usr/lib/vmware-sso/bin/vi_regtool listServices http://vCenter_Single_Sign-On_FQDN:7444/lookupservice/sdk

Windows:

1. Log into the Windows server where the vSphere Single-Sign On service is installed.
2. Open a command prompt windows to the C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VMware\CIS\vmware-sso\ directory
3. Set the Java Home by running:

4. Run the command to list the services registered with Single Sign-On and save the output to c:\sso_services.txt

5. Open the c:\sso_services.txt output in Notepad:

vSphere 5.1

Appliance:
Open an SSH session to the vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 and run:

/usr/lib/vmware-sso/bin/vi_regtool listServices http://vCenter_Single_Sign-On_FQDN:7444/lookupservice/sdk

Windows:

1. Log into the Windows server where the vSphere Single-Sign On service is installed.
2. Open a command prompt window to the C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\SSOServer\ssolscli directory
3. Set the Java Home by running:

1. Run the command to list the services registered with Single Sign-On and save the output to c:\sso_services.txt

1. Open the c:\sso_services.txt output in Notepad:

Following is an example of Service Registration (from 6.x or 7.x): 

Name: cs.keyvalue.servicenameresource
Description: cs.keyvalue.servicedescriptionresource
Service Product: com.vmware.cis
Service Type: cs.keyvalue
Service ID: 24803f6a-0865-4267-ab0a-fc47a74f5cf1_kv
Site ID: default-site
Node ID: c0d1ea69-49d4-45aa-b6cd-6a54588d8d13
Owner ID: vpxd-extension-9060afc0-d5d6-46c3-86a4-dcf83d8c1f76@vsphere.local
Version: 1.0
Endpoints:
        Type: com.vmware.cis.kv.client
        Protocol: http
        URL: https://vCenterServer_FQDN_or_PNID:443/invsvc
        SSL trust: MIIEoDCCpROaVQHMbwECFmFlubr/f3R7qau3UU.......................s7XJJkS1ZW/q4lfpqSzZDfH8kT2yxonbQm9aJr0IWNY/R/J8KZa1a0jslE/wLfdDkNl

• Service Type and Service Product - These are string values to uniquely identify the Type of Service, Example: vCenter Server Service or Inventory Service
• Site ID - This shows the Site Name where Services are registered for a particular vCenter Server
• Node ID - This is the unique identifier of each vCenter Server deployment, this ID can be obtained by executing command "/usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin/vmafd-cli get-ldu --server-name localhost"
• Owner ID - Solution user associated with the Service
• Endpoints - Each Service will have one or more endpoints with a specified functionality ( Example - one endpoint for SDK queries, another one for Health etc..)
• Type: String value in Endpoint Type is used to uniquely identify the Type of endpoints which can be filtered by other Services
• Protocol - Type of Protocol used to communicate with the Endpoint URL
• URL - Services connects to the URL specified in Endpoint URL for communicating each other, each Endpoint URL has a specific functionality
• SSL Trust - Base 64 encoded Certificate which is configured for the Service, when two services communicate each other using the endpoints, it uses value of SSL Trust to confirm the authenticity of the connection

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