Is there documentation that more completely details the role, function, and implementation of the VMAN Free Additional Polling Engine (APE)?
(....what aspect of VMAN are they intended to be used for? , which installer would be used to install one?... )
thanks
Since upgrading our environment to ESXi/vCenter 6.5U2 we have been experiencing "VM Disk Latency" according to VMAN. Frequently it will show latency approaching 25 seconds! After hours of trying to find the cause of this latency we are starting to wonder if the data in Orion could be incorrect. We can not find any evidence of latency exceeding 8ms in vCenter nor on the hosts using esxtop.
Where is VMAN pulling the VM Disk stats from and how can I validate that an issue actually exists?
*Note: VMAN 8.2.1 HF1
Hi All,
I thougnt I'd post the question here in case anyone can help or has the same query.
The site I am working on is looking at VMAN, NPM and SAM as a base product set. This particular query is around VMware vCenter as well as ESXi polling.
I have added a vCenter Appliance as a monitored Node using Status Only: ICMP and Poll for VMware Providing creds.
When I clicked through the vCenter Node to get to an ESXi host, it was unmanaged to I added this in the same way. The wizard stated that I was polling the ESXi host via the vCenter and that I should use Status Only: ICMP as the polling method.
From what I understand, if I want to view VM interfaces stats (i.e. virtual NICS) using an Agent this does not count against my NPM interface count, which is great.
What I'm unclear about is how I monitor network interfaces on the ESXi hosts themselves. From what I can see, this isn't done via vCenter so I assume I would need to enable SNMP in order to get this information, which goes against the Add Node wizard guidance.
On this point also, if I want the vCenter to be able to send SNMPv3 traps to Orion, presumably I need to add it as an SNMPv3 managed host?
Unless I'm missing something, I can't see how ESXi interface statistics get monitored via any other means than SNMP.
Has anyone got any more info on this that might help?
Many thanks!
M
Hi,
im looking to see the total of the VM IO. When i choose the Cluster Object and push the IO Chart it told me 24cmd/sec thats a little less for 70 VM. I can see the IO for every VM in the Storage Dashboard, but i miss a total of the Cluster.
Maybe im blind and cant see it.
Anyone can help me out ?
Regards from Germany
Mitch
We have setup on our SAM page a Custom HTML resource to monitor various things from our VMWare environment using Solarwinds Virtualization Manager.
However we have a weird issue where as soon as the page refreshes, we get the following page with the message "Restoring your session, please wait" and it will stay on that view until we log out of Solarwinds and the Virtualization Manager, close the browser, clear cookies etc and then log back into Solarwinds....
The HTML code is correct as it is what is copied from the virtualization manager link to that widget. It does display correctly, until the page is refreshed, then it just shows whats in the screenshot below.
What would be causing this??
I'm new to virtualization manager, so my apologies up front.
I'm wanting to create widget on a dashboard that does a calculation of two attributes together.
Specifically, I want to report showing the top VM's that have the highest Throughput per Used Capacity. (IE "/virtualMachine/totalThroughputUtilization/week" / "/virtualMachine/totalStorageSizeUsed") How do I go about doing that? i would perfer the 'Top-N' approach as that looks most appropriate.
Thanks for any help ahead of time.
Environment:
Orion Platform 2017.3.3 SP3
Cloud Monitoring 1.1.0
IPAM 4.6.0
SAM 6.5.0
DPAIM 11.1.0
VMAN 8.1
QoE 2.4
NetPath 1.1.2
NPM 12.2
Problem Description:
When adding a node, I am unable to successfully "Test" the credentials within the VMware Polling Settings. After attempting to validate the credentials it finally gives up with the error message "Test Failed. Cannot login with selected vCenter or ESX credential." Without question, the credentials are correct. I have no issue with our ESXi 6.0 hosts and their vCenter, but cannot get it working for ESXi 6.7. Is our version of the software not compatible with 6.7? If not, does anyone know if it's compatible with ESXi 6.5?
Hi,
In our Orion VMan we have enabled vmware polling in some of the vcenters. Of those in one of the Vcenters we are getting the error like " Error while connecting to VMware device - There was no endpoint listening at https://<IPaddress>/sdk that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details."
When we try to test the credentials in the Poll for VMware in the Add node page getting the error as "Test Failed. ScheduleVMwareCredentialsTestProbeJobs failed, check fault information." The user which I am trying to test is having admin privilege in the vcenter.
Can some one help me to resolve this.
Regards,
Sreenath
I am relatively new to VMAN. Is there a way to create a tabular report showing a bunch of different systems with columns for Average Memory and CPU utilization over a period of time?
Hi,
We are facing issues for "Disk utilization" the information is given by solarwinds are not proper, because in the front end its not showing correct utilization limit and when we check the same in backend we can see the exact utilization and for many servers we can able to see its wise wersa like it's giving correct information in front end but not reflecting in backed end. PFB SS for the same
So, can you please check and help me out at the earliest,
So I was reading the VMan Admin guide the other day (everyone does that, right?) I stumbled across something that I thought was important enough to write a post about so that, when I go searching for it in the future, I'll be able to find it! It's about data collection intervals. One of the hardest concepts for folks who are new to network monitoring is the concept that the data collected is not 'real-time'. (If you are ever sitting a pre-sales engagement with the sales team and one of them says "We can provide real-time monitoring" you have my permission to smack them with a frozen cod) Real-time suggests that the data is streaming to the NPM or, in our case, the VMan, server. Not only would the network team hate you for that, but so would the DBAs, storage, server and just about everyone else who wanted to do something with the network other than monitoring.
With that I present a summary of page 89 in the Virtualization Manager Administrator's Guide (v6.1) <drum roll>
(Here's where it gets a little interesting)
Once all this data is collected it is retained on the following schedule (all values are defaults)
I certainly hope that this comes in useful for someone else. I know that for my NPM customers I would spend a fair bit of time explaining to them about data collection and retention periods as it influences everything from the interpretation of reports to alerting. I expect that our rollout of VMan 6.1 will result in similar discussions.
I am looking at using VMAN as a solution for one of our customers and I am curious what level of configuration it will give me over the data resolution.
I would like to have real-time or near real-time data view for current data, is this possible? Also, what level of resolution can I keep historically?
Thanks in advance for any help with this!
I'm a little confused. I have configured Active Directory authentication for my users and have enabled the automatic creation of user-level accounts. No problem. Users log in and should only have user rights. If a user requires admin access I log in and assign them the Admin role. Nice and easy, right?
When I log in with my user-level accounts why can they add/remote/change widgets on the dashboard? Heck, why can they create new dashboards? I want to be able to give folks the ability to log in and poke around but I don't want them fiddling with dashboards, etc. I've read the manual (yep, the *whole* thing) and I don't see (or remember) any reference that would solve this issue.
This also impacts the integration into our NPM/SAM environment. I've had to disable Virtualization Manager Embedded Views as users were able to fiddle with the dashboards after authenticating into the Orion web console. I don't really want to have to build views with custom HTML for displaying widgets but I will if it means a more secure environment.
Thanks,
Josh
Hi all
I need to make on report on VM tags and vreplication value.
in which tables may I find the TAGS and the datas about replications ?
thanks a lot
Gildas
I am working on migrating our virtualization monitoring from Veeam ONE to Virtualization Manager 7 (integrated into Orion). One of the alerts I am having difficulty migrating is "Virtual machine consolidation needed status".
Is there a way to configure VMAN to monitor for Disk Consolidation alerts?
Fired by event: com.vmware.vc.VmDiskFailedToConsolidateEvent
Fired by event: com.vmware.vc.VmDiskConsolidationNeeded
Thanks in advance
Environment: vMan Orion 8.1 (no appliance) and Orion 2017.3 with SAM 6.5
Objective: Alert on disk utilization from any VMs managed by vMan. These VMs are only managed by vMan and not managed by SAM thus the VMs are not managed nodes from Orion perspective. In other words, I like to alert when vMan VM Component Volumes object shows in Red:
I don't see any option to specify these objects and triggers when building alerts.
Thanks
j
Hi Everyone,
Does anyone have experience Solarwinds giving false "down" alerts on with virtual servers?
It happened on a server yesterday morning, twice. We received alerts from Solarwinds that a particular server was down around 7:00 and 8:00 AM.
In looking at the application logs for that time on the server I spied numerous line items:
| Information | 10/9/2014 7:08 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 7:08 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 7:06 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 7:06 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:57 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:57 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:55 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:55 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:46 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:46 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
If I understand this correctly these are coming from the VMWare tools that is installed on the virtual instance?
Can this be causing Solarwinds to see the server being down?
Thanks everyone,
Cheryl
We are looking to find the Tags attached to the VM servers from VMWare vCenter. We are running vCenter 5.5.
I want to do the latest upgrades but I'm confused about the licensing. We have VMAN 320 sockets, but we haven't bought Log Manager.
When we upgrade we want to use the feature in VMAN 8.4 to alert on VMware events - we really want that feature - and I'm assuming this is included in the VMAN we paid for.
Does this use some type of free Log Manager? What are the limitations. Normally Log Manager takes over Syslog/Traps, but since we haven't paid for Log Manager will they keep working using the legacy features?
I can't upgrade now because this seems very confused.
It's worth noting that I'm trying out Log Manager now (eval) and I can see it appears to be able to pick up Windows Event logs - this is something we have wanted for a while and have been looking at non-SolarWinds products. When I looked at a quote for Log Analyzer I saw that it only went up to 1,000 nodes - we're well past that. How would you monitor 2000 VMs? We had no plans to monitor Windows event logs with Solarwinds modules (I'm not a fan of LEM) but perhaps this will do what we need. But we don't want to do that today, perhaps in a couple of months.
Can I upgrade, get the VMware events, keep Syslog/traps as they are?
Hi!
Is VMan capable of monitoring the RAID Array status of ESXi servers? I specifically mean the direct-attached disks that are RAID-configured on a VMWare server.
Can't find anything in the VMan guide. Hope somebody can help.
Thanks in advance,
Paulo