How to Monitor Physical Desktops Using eG Enterprise?

This involves the following 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 desktop you want monitored;

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

4. If required, override the default port number at which the remote agent listens;

5. Manage the Physical Desktop Group component using the eG administrative interface;

6. View the real-time state and metrics of the managed Physical Desktop Group component in the eG monitoring console

To know how to install an eG agent on a remote 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 Physical Desktop Group Component

Monitoring the Physical Desktop Group