Specifications

12 VM-Series Deployment Guide
Monitor Changes in the Virtual Environment About the VM-Series Firewall
Set up the VM Monitoring Agent
Step 1 Enable the VM Monitoring Agent.
Note Up to 10 sources can be configured for
each firewall, or for each virtual system on
a multiple virtual systems capable firewall.
If your firewalls are configured in a high
availability configuration:
• An active/passive setup, only the active
firewall monitors the VM sources.
• An active/active setup, only the
firewall with the priority value of
primary monitors the VM sources.
1. Select
Device > VM Information Sources.
2. Click
Add and enter the following information:
a. A
Name to identify the VMware ESX(i) or vCenter server
that you want to monitor.
b. Enter the
Host information for the server—hostname or IP
address and the
Port on which it is listening.
c. Select the
Type to indicate whether the source is a VMware
ESX(i)
server or a VMware vCenter server.
d. Add the credentials (
Username and Password) to
authenticate to the server specified above.
Use the credentials of an administrative user to enable access.
e. (Optional) Modify the
Update interval to a value between
5-600 seconds. By default, the firewall polls every 5 seconds.
The API calls are queued and retrieved within every 60
seconds, so updates may take up to 60 seconds plus the
configured polling interval.
f. (Optional) Enter the interval in hours when the connection
to the monitored source is closed, if the host does not
respond. (default: 2 hours, range 2-10 hours)
To change the default value, select the check box to
Enable
timeout when the source is disconnected
and specify the
value. When the specified limit is reached or if the host
cannot be accessed or does not respond, the firewall will
close the connection to the source.
g. Click
OK, and Commit the changes.
h. Verify that the connection
Status displays as connected.