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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Adapter Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Adapter Guide
- Updated Information
- Understanding Adapters
- Installing and Configuring Adapters
- Troubleshooting Adapters
- Available Adapters
- Default Adapters
- Product Adapters
- BMC PATROL Agent
- Compuware Gomez WS Adapter
- EMC Smarts Adapter
- EMC Symmetrix Adapter
- HP BAC Adapter
- HP SiteScope Adapter
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring Adapter
- Microsoft SCOM Adapter
- NetApp Adapter
- Oracle Enterprise Manager Adapter
- TeamQuest Adapter
- VMware Hyperic Adapter
- VMware vCenter Adapter
- VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Adapter
- VMware vCloud Director Adapter
- Generic Adapters
- Field Adapters
- Index
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Requires the Collector service to run under an impersonated user account.
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Requires user credentials that allow reading the database that contains the source data, the host name or
IP address of the database host, the port to connect to the database, and the host name or IP address of a
failover database server.
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Supports Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and 2007 R2.
NetApp Adapter
The NetApp adapter is an embedded adapter that collects data from NetApp DFM Server. NetApp DFM Server
manages NetApp objects.
The NetApp adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Collects performance data, relationship data, and change event information for NetApp storage objects.
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Imports metrics for the System, vFiler, Volume, and LUN objects.
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Creates resource kinds dynamically according to platform types and server types in NetApp DFM Server.
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Uses both auto-discovery and manual discovery to create resources.
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Requires you to configure the NetApp and DFM servers to collect metrics.
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Requires access to the DFM server. You must provide the host name or IP address of the DFM server
during adapter instance configuration. Certain ports must be open on the DFM server for the adapter
connection.
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Supports NetApp DFM Server 3.8, 4.0.1, and 5.0.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Adapter
The Oracle Enterprise Manager adapter is an embedded adapter that collects data from Oracle Enterprise
Manager database management tables.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Retrieves resource kinds. You can specify the resource kinds to collect in a configuration file. The adapter
creates metrics when it retrieves resource kinds.
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Uses auto-discovery and manual discovery to create resources.
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Requires a JDBC connection to the Oracle Enterprise Manager database and a credential to sign on to the
database. You must open an Oracle JDBC port on the firewall and have a valid Oracle JDBC connection
URL.
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Requires the user account that the adapter uses to connect to the Oracle Enterprise Manager database to
have read access to the MGMT$AVAILABILITY, MGMT$METRIC_CURRENT, MGMT
$METRIC_DETAILS, and MGMT$TARGET SYSMAN database views.
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Requires the user account that the adapter uses to connect to the Oracle Enterprise Manager database to
have rights to run the Discovery, Realtime Collect, Historical Collect, Availability Check, and Timezone
Check queries.
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Supports Oracle Enterprise Manager 10, 11, and 12c.
TeamQuest Adapter
The TeamQuest adapter is an embedded adapter that collects data from resources that TeamQuest monitors.
The TeamQuest adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Uses the TeamQuest Harvest command-line interface (tqharvc) to collect data from local TeamQuest
Manager (TQM) data stores.
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