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VMWare Tag Virtual Machine

Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module will log into the Web API of VMWare and 'tag' a specified Virtual Machine. It does this by logging a user event with user supplied text

Author(s)

  • theLightCosine <theLightCosine@metasploit.com>

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use auxiliary/admin/vmware/tag_vm
msf auxiliary(tag_vm) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(tag_vm) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(tag_vm) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(tag_vm) > run

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