The
appinfo
plugin collects the information about running applications inside the guest and publishes the information to a guest variable. For each application running inside the guest, the name and version information is captured and published by the plugin. This application information is collected by default.
Changing the poll-interval:
The
appInfo
plugin captures the information in every 30 minutes by default.
Note:
The default value is changed to '6 hours' in VMware Tools 11.1.0.
Guest admin can configure this poll-interval at anytime as follows:
Linux
vmware-toolbox-cmd config set appinfo poll-interval <new value in seconds>
Windows
VMwareToolboxCmd.exe config set appinfo poll-interval <new value in seconds>
Disabling the appInfo plugin:
Guest admin can disable the
appInfo
plugin as follows:
Linux guest
vmware-toolbox-cmd config set appinfo disabled true
or
vmware-toolbox-cmd config set appinfo poll-interval 0
Windows guest
VMwareToolboxCmd.exe config set appinfo disabled true
or
VMwareToolboxCmd.exe config set appinfo poll-interval 0
