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Starting and Stopping Metric Collection
When you add an individual resource to vCenter Operations Manager, vCenter Operations Manager does not
start collecting metrics for the resource until you start metric collection. When you discover a resource, you
can select an option to start metric collection on the discovery results page. If you did not select this option,
you must start metric collection for the resource.
You can start and stop metric collection for specific resources, including tag values, and for adapter instances.
Start or Stop Metric Collection for a Resource
You can start and stop metric collection for specific resources. When you add an individual resource to
vCenter Operations Manager, vCenter Operations Manager does not begin collecting metrics for the resource
until you start metric collection. When you stop metric collection for a resource,
vCenter Operations Manager retains its metric data in case you restart metric collection at a later time.
Because tag values are stored in vCenter Operations Manager as resources, you can also start and stop metric
collection for tag values. When you start metric collection for a tag value, vCenter Operations Manager
generated metrics are collected for it. With these metrics, you can see the health score that reflects all of the
resources that have that tag value.
Procedure
1 Select Environment > Environment Overview.
2 (Optional) On the List tab, select the resource or resources to affect.
You can press Ctrl-click to select multiple individual resources or Shift-click to select a range of resources.
If you do not select any resources, all of the resources in the system are affected.
3 Click the Start Collecting or Stop Collecting icon to start or stop metric collection for the selected
resources.
Start or Stop Metric Collection for an Adapter Instance
When you start or stop metric collection for an adapter instance, metric collection starts or stops by using
specific adapter instances for the resources that you want to affect. Resources that do not use the adapter
instance are not affected.
If a resource collects metrics through more than one adapter instance, only the metrics that are collected through
the selected instance are stopped are started. Other metrics remain in the same collection state.
Procedure
1 Select Environment > Environment Overview.
2 On the List tab, select the resource or resources to affect.
You can press Ctrl-click to select multiple individual resources or Shift-click to select a range of resources.
3 Click the Perform Multi-Collecting icon.
The Adapter Instance Resources window opens. The window lists all of the adapter instances that the
selected resources use.
4 Click the adapter instance to start or stop metric collection.
You can press Ctrl-click to select multiple individual adapter instances or Shift-click to select a range of
adapter instances. To select all of the listed adapter instances, click the heading row.
5 Click the Start Collecting or Stop Collecting icon to start or stop metric collection.
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