Pre-requisites for Monitoring VMware Infrastructures

To enable the eG agent to communicate with the VMs on the ESX host and collect the inside and ouside view metrics, a set of pre-requisites are needed to be fulfilled. These requirements have been elaborately discussed in the following topics:

• General Pre-requisites
• Pre-requisites for Auto-Discovering the VMs on a vSphere/ESX Server
• Pre-requisites for Obtaining the “Outside View” of VMs by connecting to a vCenter Server
• Pre-requisites for Obtaining the “Outside View” of VMs by directly connecting to the target vSphere/ESX Server
• Pre-requisites for Obtaining the “Inside View” of VMs, without using the eG VM Agent
• Pre-requisites for Obtaining the “Inside View” of Windows VMs, using the eG VM Agent