How to add a Hyper-V monitoring agent (4370471)

How to add a Hyper-V monitoring agent

Hyper-V Monitoring in Foglight® Evolve Cloud uses the Hyper-V, SCVMM, and SOFS agents to collect information about your virtual environment:

• Hyper-V Agents collect information from monitored Hyper-V servers. A Hyper-V server is a physical component required to begin building a virtual infrastructure. Hyper-V servers provide hypervisor-based architecture for controlling and managing resources for the virtual machines that run on it.
• SCVMM Agents collect information from Virtual Machine Managers (VMM). A VMM allows you to manage host, networking, and storage resources when creating and deploying virtual machines to virtual clouds.
• SOFS Agents collect information from monitored SOFS servers. A SOFS server is a Windows Server cluster with some form of shared storage. SOFS servers provide highly available file-based storage for applications and general use.

When Hyper-V, SCVMM, and SOFS agent packages are successfully deployed, you can create agent instances, activate them, and start their data collection. To perform these steps in a single operation for one or more monitored hosts, use the Agents area on the Hyper-V Configuration dashboard.

When you add an agent instance, the agent process is created on the Agent Manager host. Activating the agent instance starts that agent process. When you start an agent’s data collection, the agent process starts collecting data from the monitored host and to sends it to Hyper-V Monitoring in Foglight Evolve Cloud.