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vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Suite Adapters
If you purchase the vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise suite version 5.6 or later, you are entitled to certain
adapters. To install these adapters, you must download them from the VMware FTP site.
Table 2-2. vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Suite Adapters
Adapter Description
EMC Symmetrix adapter See “EMC Symmetrix Adapter,” on page 15.
NetApp adapter See “NetApp Adapter,” on page 17.
VMware Hyperic adapter See “VMware Hyperic Adapter,” on page 18.
VMware vCloud Director adapter See “VMware vCloud Director Adapter,” on page 19.
Product Adapters
Product adapters support specific third-party products and open source tools that are commerically available.
Compuware Gomez WS Adapter
The Gomez Web Services (WS) adapter is an embedded adapter that collects data from Gomez Backbone.
Gomez Backbone is the Internet backbone measurement component of the Compuware Gomez Synthetic
Monitoring system.
The Gomez WS adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Uses Web client stubs that Gomez provides to collect data from Gomez Backbone.
n
Runs in real time and historical data collection modes.
n
Uses manual discovery to create resources.
n
Creates Gomez Site, Gomez Backbone Monitor, and Gomez Test resource kinds.
n
Requires a Gomez account to connect to the Gomez service.
EMC Smarts Adapter
The EMC Smarts adapter is an embedded adapter that collects metrics, change events, and resource topology
information from software and hardware resources that EMC Smarts monitors.
vCenter Operations Manager can also send alerts to EMC Smarts.
The EMC Smarts adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Connects to an EMC broker.
n
Receives resources that EMC servers monitor in domains that you select.
n
Receives the topology of container resources that EMC defines and metric values for attributes that EMC
Smarts monitors.
n
Generates change events when EMC detects that a resource is down and anomalies when EMC detects
that a resource is unresponsive.
n
Sends alerts to the EMC Smarts Global Console.
n
Uses auto-discovery and manual discovery to create resources.
n
Requires a valid EMC Smarts user name and password, the IP address and port number of the EMC broker,
and the name of an EMC Smarts domain to which to attach.
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Supports EMC Smarts 7.x and 8.1.
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