Property Collector

vSphere servers provide the PropertyCollector service for accessing data and monitoring changes. Use the PropertyCollector to obtain references to managed objects, to obtain values of managed object properties, and to monitor and retrieve modified property values.

This chapter includes the following topics:

■	Introduction to the PropertyCollector

■	vSphere Data Objects for Property Collection

■	vSphere Methods for Property Collection

■	PropertyCollector Example (RetrievePropertiesEx)

■	Inventory Traversal

■	Client Data Synchronization (WaitForUpdatesEx)

■	Server Data Transmission

■	PropertyCollector Performance

■	SearchIndex