AppManager for VMware vSphere provides a set of Knowledge Scripts designed to give you a comprehensive view of how vSphere performs in your environment. This module monitors resources through vCenter to ensure that the most basic components of your vSphere environment function correctly.
You can use AppManager for VMware vSphere to monitor the following:
Addition or removal of hosts and or virtual machines from vCenter
Configuration changes to hosts and virtual machines in vCenter
Virtual machine operations occurring across clusters and datacenters
Migration of virtual machines to different hosts or a move to different datastores or resource pools
Host and virtual machine uptime, or the amount of time since the last reboot
Host and virtual machine CPU usage, CPU ready time, CPU wait time, and CPU used
Host and virtual machine memory usage, memory consumed, and memory balloon
Host and virtual machine disk reads and writes
Host and virtual machine network data received and transmitted
Triggered, acknowledged, and cleared alarms raised in vCenter, which you can filter by alarm name
Events raised in vCenter, which you can filter by vCenter entity type, user name, and event description
Task failures in vCenter, which you can filter by vCenter entity type, task name, and task user name
Changes in the ESX or ESXi hardware, which you can monitor with the Alarms Knowledge Script
Changes in the connection status of hosts and virtual machines to vCenter
vCenter Server services
vCenter CPU usage and memory usage
Changes in the power status of virtual machines
The number and size of all virtual machine snapshots, as well as the age of virtual machine snapshots and reverted snapshots
The VMware Tools status of virtual machines
Resource pool and cluster CPU usage, memory usage, memory swap used, and memory balloon
Host disk latency, physical device latency, kernel disk latency, and queue latency
You can set thresholds to indicate the boundaries of optimal performance and configure AppManager to raise events when thresholds are exceeded.
In addition to monitoring, you can use the VirtualCenter Knowledge Scripts to collect performance data for use in reports. AppManager for VMware vSphere lets you generate reports that range in scope from minute-by-minute values to monthly values over a period of years. The reports range from evaluating a narrow window of performance data to illustrating trends to aid in capacity planning.
You can now use the Discovery_VirtualCenter script to create exclusion lists of hosts and virtual machines (VMs) that you do not want to display in the AppManager for VMware vSphere TreeView. You can raise an event if the discovery process does not find excluded objects. The Discovery script also now lets you discover and monitor virtual appliances, or vApps.