Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring

Iotellect Network Manager facilitates consolidation, monitoring, automating, optimization and planning of your virtual infrastructure.

For the purposes of discussion we decompose virtual infrastructure monitoring into several levels:

• Centralized platform for managing: VMware vCenter Server (centralized platform level)
• Hypervisors: VMware ESX/ESXi; Microsoft Hyper-V (server level)
• Virtual machines (virtual machine level)
• Guest operating systems (operating system level)

In the context of this classification Iotellect Network Manager provides monitoring at all levels with both generic and vendor-specific tools. For example, at the server level, ESX/ESXi hypervisor can be treated as a standard Linux machine and therefore can be monitored using generic tools (see Device Availability Monitoring, Performance Monitoring, Applications and Services Monitoring). That is also true for Windows-based Hyper-V hypervisor. Similarly at operating system level, operating system that runs inside a Guest VM acts like any other operating system, and therefore can be monitored using the same approach.

Iotellect Network Manager Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring toolset allows to monitor particular virtual machines and the specified hypervisor server or centralized platform where they are running on. It includes dashboards along with a set of widgets, models and event filters. The toolset can be customized if necessary, or extended by creating new tools using the existing as templates and/or examples.

Iotellect Network Manager monitors virtual machines running on VMware hypervisors via specific VMware plugin or via SNMP protocol, using vmwVmTable and other VMware MIB-files based variables. These variables are automatically configured for periodic polling (to provide live refreshing of the values). The polling settings can be adjusted for specific tasks using Device Settings Synchronization Options. Refer to VMware documentation to get a set of MIB-files and for more information on enabling SNMP on VMware hypervisors.

Virtual machines running on Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor are monitored via WMI. See WMI Monitoring and Management for proper WMI configuration.

To configure the VMware monitoring via VMware plugin:

• Create a VMware account in the Devices node of the System Tree
• Set URI of the vSphere Service (case sensitive) property like a https://your_host_ip/sdk
• Type Username and Password in. In most cases Username is root
• If you are configuring vCenter Server installed as a Windows application, enable Is SSO enabled (only vCenter) property. In other cases leave property disabled (by default)
• Disable Skip SSL Certificate validation property if you configured a SSL mechanism in your connection. In most cases and if you don't know about SSL state, leave property enabled (by default)
• Open a Virtualization Server Details dashboard by double-clicking on the device account

To configure the VMware monitoring via SNMP:

• Enable and configure SNMP service on your host. Please refer to VMware documentation for more information
• Add vendor MIB-files to a mib folder which located in Iotellect Network Manager installation directory
• Create a Network Host or SNMP account in the Devices node of the System Tree
• Check and configure SNMP service parameters if it is necessary. They are located in account Services - SNMP tab for Network Host context type or in account Connection Properties tab for SNMP context type
• Enable added MIB-files in account Metadata - Assets tab for Network Host context type or in account Metadata - Assets tab by clicking on SNMP - Nested Assets cell for SNMP context type
• Open a Virtualization Server Details dashboard by double-clicking on the device account

To configure the Hyper-V monitoring via WMI:

• Enable and configure WMI service on your host. Please see WMI Monitoring and Management for proper WMI configuration
• Create a Network Host or WMI account in the Devices node of the System Tree
• Configure WMI service parameters if it is necessary. They are located in account Services - WMI tab for Network Host context type or in account Connection Properties tab for WMI context type. Make sure that ROOTVIRTUALIZATION namespace is added or All Namespaces property is enabled
• Enable basic virtualization WMI classes: ROOTVIRTUALIZATION:Msvm_ComputerSystem, ROOTVIRTUALIZATION:Msvm_KvpExchangeComponent, ROOTVIRTUALIZATION:Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService in account Metadata - Assets tab for Network Host context type or in account Metadata - Assets tab by clicking on WMI - Nested Assets cell for WMI context type
• Open a Virtualization Server Details dashboard by double-clicking on the device account

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