6.3

Mapping Virtual Machines to Operating Systems
You can map your virtual machines to an operating system to provide additional information to assist you
to determine the root cause of why an alert was triggered for a virtual machine.
vRealize Operations Manager monitors your ESXi hosts and the virtual machines located on them. When
you deploy an Endpoint Operations Management agent, it discovers the virtual machines and the objects
that are running on them. By correlating the virtual machines discovered by the
Endpoint Operations Management agent with the operating systems monitored by
vRealize Operations Manager you have more details to determine the exact cause of an alert being triggered.
Verify that you have the vCenter Adapter congured with the vCenter Server that manages the virtual
machines. You also need to ensure that you have VMware Tools that are compatible with the vCenter Server
installed on each of the virtual machines.
User Scenario
vRealize Operations Manager is running but you have not yet deployed the
Endpoint Operations Management agent in your environment. You congured
vRealize Operations Manager to send you alerts when CPU problems occur. You see an alert on your
dashboard because insucient CPU capacity is available on one of your virtual machines that is running a
Linux operating system. You deploy another two virtual CPUs but the alert remains. You struggle to
determine what is causing the problem.
In the same situation, if you deployed the Endpoint Operations Management agent, you can see the objects
on your virtual machines, and determine that an application-type object is using all available CPU capacity.
When you add more CPU capacity, it also uses that. You disable the object and your CPU availability is no
longer a problem.
Viewing Objects on Virtual Machines
After you deploy an Endpoint Operations Management agent on a virtual machine, the machine is mapped
to the operating system and you can see the objects on that machine.
All the actions and the views that are available to other objects in your vRealize Operations Manager
environment are also available for newly discovered server, service, and application objects, and for the
deployed agent.
You can see the objects on a virtual machine in the inventory when you select the machine in the
Environment > vSphere Hosts and Clusters view. You can see the objects and the deployed agent under the
operating system.
When you select an object, the center pane of the user interface displays data relevant to that objects.
Endpoint Operations Management Agent Upgrade for
vRealize Operations Manager 6.3
The Endpoint Operations Management agent for vRealize Operations Manager 6.3 is not backward
compatible. vRealize Operations Manager 6.3 works only with the Endpoint Operations Management agent
6.3 and does not work with the previous versions. The Endpoint Operations Management agent 6.3 does not
work with previous versions of vRealize Operations Manager.
Upgrade the Endpoint Operations Management agents in the following order:
1 Upgrade Endpoint Operations Management agents 6.2 and above to 6.3.
2 Upgrade vRealize Operations Manager 6.2 and above to vRealize Operations Manager 6.3.
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