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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Adapter Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Adapter Guide
- Updated Information
- Understanding Adapters
- Available Adapters
- vCenter and VCM Adapters
- vCenter Operations Manager Advanced Suite Adapters
- vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Suite Adapters
- Product Adapters
- Compuware Gomez WS Adapter
- EMC Smarts Adapter
- EMC Symmetrix Adapter
- HP BAC Adapter
- HP OpenView Adapter
- HP SiteScope Adapter
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring Adapter
- Keynote Adapter
- Microsoft SCOM Adapter
- NetApp Adapter
- Oracle Enterprise Manager Adapter
- SAP Adapter
- TeamQuest Adapter
- VMware Hyperic Adapter
- VMware vCenter Adapter
- VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Adapter
- VMware vCloud Director Adapter
- Generic Adapters
- Field Adapters
- Installing and Configuring Adapters
- Troubleshooting Adapters
- Index
Generic Adapters
Generic adapters are designed to connect to standard data sources. They typically require field customization
to accommodate site-specific environments.
Port Adapter
The port adapter is an embedded adapter that monitors the availability state and response time of ports on
hosts.
The port adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Uses sockets to monitor the availability state and response time of ports on hosts.
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Reads a text that you define to determine the hosts and ports to monitor.
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Creates resources for each host listed in the text file.
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Generates an alert notification when a port that it monitors becomes unavailable.
Relationships Adapter
The Relationships adapter is an embedded adapter that updates resource relationships in
vCenter Operations Manager. The Relationships adapter does not collect data.
The Relationships adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Updates resource relationships based on information that you store in an external database. You define
parent-child relationships in this database.
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Uses JDBC drivers to access the source relationships table.
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Requires a JDBC URL and user credentials that allow reading the database that contains the source
relationships data.
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Supports SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Sybase, and MySQL databases. The supported database
versions depend on the version of the JDBC driver included with the adapter. You can find the JDBC
driver version for each database in the
vcenter-ops
/user/plugins/inbound/general_sql_adapter3/lib
folder.
SNMP Adapter
The SNMP adapter is an embedded adapter that collects metrics from devices that support the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP). These devices typically include routers, switches, servers, workstations, and
printers.
The SNMP adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Uses Management Information Base (MIB) files to determine the metrics to collect from a particular device.
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Includes a set of standard MIB files. MIB files appear as resource kinds in the user interface. You can import
additional MIB files for the adapter to use.
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Includes the Predefined MIB Statistics resource kind, which consists of common device-level and interface-
level variables selected from RFC1213-MIB.mib.
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Uses manual discovery to create resources. You can also create resources individually.
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Requires an SNMP community string. The community string authenticates messages sent between the
SNMP management station and managed devices.
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Supports SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c.
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