Specifications

Installing a federated collector
The federated collector is distributed as a VMware virtual appliance OVF
template.
To deploy and configure a federated collector:
1. Extract the contents of the Collector .zip archive file.
2. In the VMware client, deploy the new federated collector appliance from the
OVF template in the same way you deploy a SolarWinds Virtualization
Manager server. For information about installing a Virtualization Manager
server, see Installing Virtualization Manager as a virtual appliance.
3. Open the console for the federated collector, and then turn on the virtual
appliance.
4. Configure the appliance with appropriate network settings in the same way
you configure a SolarWinds Virtualization Manager server.
5. Log on to the administration website of the new collector
(https://ipAddress:5480) with the user admin and the password admin.
6. Click the SolarWinds Data Collector tab.
7. In the Collector Timezone field, select the time zone of the main
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. Do not set this to the time zone of the
collector.
8. In the Collector Hostname field, type the host name you want to use for this
collector.
9. In the Collector Display Name field, type a unique identifier that will be
used to refer to this collector in SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. For
example: tokyo-collector.
10. In the SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Server Address field, type the
host name or IP address of the main SolarWinds Virtualization Manager.
11. Click Configure Now. The federated collector is now ready to accept data
source collection assignments from SolarWinds Virtualization Manager.
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