Configuring Hyper-V Agents for Data Collection
1. Log in to the Foglight browser interface.
2. On the navigation panel Dashboards |Hyper-V | Hyper-V Environment
3 On the Hyper-V Environment dashboard open the Administration tab
4. Click Add to launch the Agent Setup wizard
5. Select the Agent Manager to create the Hyper-V Agent instance
6. Click Next
The Agent Setup wizard refreshes, showing the Discover or Manual
Select one of the following options:
• Discover. If this option is selected choose from the available Hyper-V Servers running in the desired domain.
•Manual. If this option selected manually specify the name of the Hyper-V Server
7. Enter Domain Credentials.
•Domain: Type the fully qualified name of a domain to search for the Hyper-V Server. For example,
myDomain.com
•User: Type the user name to be used by the agent to be used to query Active Directory on the selected domain using the syntax Domain\UserName. For example,
myDomain\myUserName.
•Password: Password associated with the user name.
A list of all Hyper-V servers that have access to, based on the domain name and user credentials provided
8. Select Servers. Select one or more Hyper-V Servers.
9. Credential Verification
On the Credentials Verification, select one of the following options:
• Do not configure a credential: Select this option if configure the credential for this resource at a later time.
• Add host(s) to a new credential: Select this option to add the host to a new credential. This option is suitable if none of the existing credentials have the connection details needed to access the new host
• Add host(s) to an existing credential: Select this option to add host to an existing credential. This option is suitable if an existing credential has the security data needed to access the new host.
10. On the Summary, review the information provided about the host and the monitoring agent.
11. Click Finish.