How to Monitor Cloud Desktops Using eG Enterprise?

This involves the following broad steps:

1. Install an eG agent on a remote Windows/Linux host in the environment;

2. Install and start an eG VM Agent on every Windows desktop you want monitored on the cloud;

3. Configure every eG VM Agent with the details of the remote agent it should communicate with and the Cloud Desktop Group component it should monitor;

4. If required, you can override the default port number (60010) at which the remote agent listens;

5. Manage the Cloud Desktops component using the eG administrative interface;

6. View the real-time state and metrics of the managed Cloud Desktops component in the eG monitoring console

To know how to install an eG agent on a Windows/Linux host, refer to the eG Installation Guide. Each of the other steps outlined above (i.e., steps 2-6) has been elaborately discussed in the following topics :

Installing the eG VM Agent

Configuring the eG VM Agent to Communicate with the eG Manager/eG Remote Agent

Managing a Cloud Desktops Component

Monitoring the Cloud Desktops Component