There are two ways to access the VMware Performance Agent properties:
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On the VMware Environment dashboard, on the Administration tab, select an agent instance and click Edit Properties (see Configuring monitoring agents for data collection ). This method only provides access to the Configuration properties, but not the Black List and Data Collection Scheduler properties. |
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On the Agent Status dashboard, select an agent instance and click Edit Properties. This method provides access to the full set of VMware Performance Agent properties, and is described in this topic. |
For more information about working with agent properties, see the Administration and Configuration Guide.
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Click Modify the private properties for this agent to indicate that you want to edit the properties of the selected VMware Performance Agent instance. |
The configuration of agent properties described in this section include:
The Configuration properties point the VMware Performance Agent to the machine on which the Virtual Center is running, and provide some additional configuration settings.
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Locate the VMware Performance Agent’s Configuration properties. |
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Set the Configuration properties as follows: |
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Host Name: The fully qualified host name of the machine on which the Virtual Center is running. |
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Host Port: The port number of the machine on which the Virtual Center is running that will be used by the VMware Performance Agent to connect to that machine in order to collect data from the monitored Virtual Center. |
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Performance request threads: The number of threads in a performance request. |
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Cisco switch collection threads: The number of threads in a Cisco switch collection. |
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Storage Collection Enabled: If you are running <Product Name>™ for Storage Management and want to enable the VMware Performance Agent to collect the Foglight Storage data, select True, otherwise, set this property to False. Foglight for Storage Management can help you optimize the VMware environment virtual storage and its underlying physical storage components. For more information about this product, see your Foglight for Storage Management documentation. |
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VMWare Request Timeout (sec): The amount of time in seconds after which a VMware request times out. |
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Default performance request timeout (sec). Increased as needed: The amount of time in seconds after which a default performance request times out. |
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Property request timeout (sec): The amount of time in seconds after which a property request times out. |
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Update request timeout (sec): The amount of time in seconds after which an update request times out. |
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Login/open/close timeout (sec): The amount of time in seconds after which login, open, or close requests times out. |
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Cisco switch connection timeout (sec): The amount of time in seconds after which a Cisco switch connection times out. |
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Cisco switch timeout (sec) for performing a single SSH command: The amount of time in seconds after which an attempt to perform a single SSH command on a Cisco switch times out. |
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Request Timeout for HA operation (sec): The amount of time in seconds after which an HA operation request times out. |
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Request Timeout for move vm operation (min): The amount of time in minutes after which a request for an operation to move a virtual machine times out. |
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Alarms Collection Enabled: If you want to collect VMware alarms from the monitored system, set this to True. Otherwise, select False. |
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Performance request batch size (10-50): The size of a performance request batch. |
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Performance submission batch size: The size of a performance submission batch. |
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Click Save. |
A file collector is a component that captures metrics from specific files on the monitoring system. The FileCollector properties instruct the VMware Performance Agent which datastores, file directories, and files to exclude from monitoring.
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Locate the VMware Performance Agent’s FileCollector properties. |
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Set the FileCollector properties as follows: |
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Excluded Datastores: Select a list in which you want to specify the datastores that you want to exclude from monitoring. You can select or clone an existing list, and edit it, as required. The default list is excludedDatastoresList. Lists can be shared between multiple agent instances. For more information about list properties, see the Administration and Configuration Help. |
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Datastore Name: The name of one or more datastores that you want to exclude from monitoring. To specify multiple datastores, you must use regular expressions. |
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Regex Flag: Indicates if the Datastore Name contains a regular expressions. |
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Excluded Folders: Select a list in which you want to specify the file directories that you want to exclude from monitoring. You can select or clone an existing list, and edit it, as required. The default list is hiddenFolders. Lists can be shared between multiple agent instances. For more information about list properties, see the Administration and Configuration Help. |
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Folder Name: The path to one or more directories that you want to exclude from monitoring. To specify multiple directories, you must use regular expressions. |
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Regex Flag: Indicates if the Folder Name contains a regular expressions. |
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Excluded Files: Select a list in which you want to specify the files that you want to exclude from monitoring. You can select or clone an existing list, and edit it, as required. The default list is vmwareSrmFiles. Lists can be shared between multiple agent instances. For more information about list properties, see the Administration and Configuration Help. |
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Click Save. |
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