Applies To:

• VMware ESX 3 and later.
• VMware ESXi 5.5 and later.
• VMware vCenter 6.0 and later.

Overview

VMware is a virtualization and cloud computing software provider. VMware virtualization is based on the ESXi bare metal hypervisor, supporting virtual machines. The term "VMware" is often used in reference to various VMware Inc. products such as VMware vCenter, VMware Workstation, VMware View, VMware Horizon Application Manager and VMware vCloud Director.

Providing log and audit coverage across VMware components can be difficult since each component of VMware writes audit logs and tasks in different ways. Within ESXi, the Tasks & Events pane provides a view into administrator activities; these can be fetched via API. EventTracker seamlessly aggregates and assists in analysis and visualization aided by alerts, reports and dashboards.

EventTracker Knowledge Pack for VMware allows you to monitor the following components:-

• Operations:- Clusters, data centers, virtual machine created or removed and high resource usage.
• Security:- Alarms triggered
• Compliance:- Policy and permission changes, configuration changes and Esxi host/vCenter login and logout.

Once logs are received in to EventTracker reports, alerts and dashboards can be configured into EventTracker.

The following Knowledge Packs are available in EventTracker v9 and later to support VMware ESXi and vCenter Server monitoring:

Scope

The configurations detailed in this guide are consistent with EventTracker Enterprise version 7.X and later, VMware ESX 3 and later,VMware ESXi 5.5 and later,VMware vCenter 6.0 and later.

Documentation:

For more information please refer the Integration guide