Specifications

Chapter 2: Installing SolarWinds Virtualization Manager
12. Click Generate License File.
13. Click the license download link to download the license file.
14. Transfer the license file to the computer you are using to access SolarWinds
Virtualization Manager.
15. Click Upload License File.
16. Select your license file, and then click Open.
Excluding hosts from monitoring
If you do not have enough SolarWinds Virtualization Manager licenses to cover
every powered on virtual machine managed by a vCenter server, you can change
the access permissions of the vCenter user account to limit what it can access.
Restricting the VMs accessible by the user account reduces the number of VMs,
or sockets, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager can collect data from, and allows
you to control which VMs are being monitored.
You can typically control access permissions in the VMware client by assigning
the "No Access" role to the vCenter account for the hosts and VMs you want to
restrict.
To exclude a host:
1. Expand the "Host & Clusters" until you locate the host you want to exclude.
2. Right-click the host, and then click Add Permission.
3. Add the user performing SolarWinds Virtualization Manager data collection
but assign the role No Access. This eliminates the host from all data
collection including WMI.
For more information, search for the basic system administration guide on the
VMware documentation site.
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