VMware
The VMware integration allows you to collect metrics from your VMware clusters (if vCenter is being utilized), hosts, and datastores. FortiMonitor can perform automatic discovery and monitoring of these components within your VMware deployment.
Make sure that you have the latest version of the OnSight vCollector. To check your OnSight’s version, see Manage and configure your OnSight vCollector.
Control panel configuration
To start monitoring your VMware instances, perform the following steps:
VMware user account creation
Before configuring the VMware integration in the control panel, create a read-only user for FortiMonitor in your VMware management tool, for example, vCenter Server Appliance. Use these credentials to set up your VMware integration.
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From the navigation menu, click Add. The Infrastructure and Resource Catalog is displayed.
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Select VMware from the Infrastructure section of the catalog. If you do not see this option, please contact our support team to have it enabled.
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Connect your VMware environment to FortiMonitor by entering your VMware connection information.
The fields are described in the following table:
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Field |
Description |
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OnSight Collector |
Select an OnSight vCollector instance to use as a monitoring location for this integration. |
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VMware Username |
The username of your FortiMonitor VMware user account. |
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VMware Password |
The password of your FortiMonitor VMware user account. |
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IP Address |
The IP address or host name of your VMware vCenter. |
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Port |
The port of your VMware Center (Usually Port 443). |
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Import Name |
Enter the name to be associated with this integration. |
4. Select Finish Installation.
After installation, and every 15 minutes from there on, all of your VMware instances will be automatically discovered and imported to FortiMonitor. All decommissioned instances will be removed from FortiMonitor as well. You can see all the discovered instances in the instance tree.
Instance Tree
If you open the instance tree on the left side of the control panel, you will see that your VMware resources are nested under a grouped named after your VMware vCenter instance.
Infrastructure Map and Dashboards
VMware instances will appear in the Infrastructure Maps and Dashboards similar to any other monitored instance.
Supported metrics
Host metrics
The following table describes all of the supported host metrics for VMware.
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Metric |
Unit |
Description |
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CPU Usage |
Percentage |
The total CPU resources utilized by the host in percent. |
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Wait |
milliseconds |
The CPU wait time in milliseconds. |
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CPU Usage: Total |
Percentage |
The aggregate value of the CPU resources used by all of the cores in the host. |
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Average read requests per second |
Coun |
The average number of read requests per second. |
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Average write requests per second |
Count |
The average number of write requests per second. |
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Disk Usage |
KBps |
The average of the data read and written for all of the disks in the host. |
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Physical device read latency |
milliseconds |
The physical device read latency in milliseconds. |
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Physical device write latency |
milliseconds |
The physical device write latency in milliseconds. |
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Read rate |
KBps |
The read rate in kilobytes per second. |
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Write rate |
KBps |
The write rate in kilobytes per second. |
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Active |
KB |
The amount of memory actively used. |
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Heap free |
KB |
The amount of free space in the heap. |
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Host consumed % |
Percentage |
The average memory consumed by the host in kilobytes. |
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Data receive rate: Total |
KBps |
The aggregate value of the data received rate in kilobytes per second. |
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Data receive rate |
KBps |
Data received rate in kilobytes per second. |
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Data transmit rate: Total |
KBps |
The aggregate value of the data transmission rate in kilobytes per second. |
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Data transmit rate |
KBps |
Data transmission rate in kilobytes per second. |
Cluster metrics
The following table describes all of the supported cluster metrics for VMware.
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Metric |
Unit |
Description |
|---|---|---|
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CPU Usage: Total |
Percentage |
The total CPU resources utilized by the cluster in percent. |
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Host Consumed |
Percentage |
Amount of host memory consumed by the virtual machine for guest memory. |
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VM guest reboot count |
Count |
The total number of times a VM guest has rebooted in a specified period. |
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VM guest shutdown count |
Count |
The total number of times a VM guest has shut down in a specified period. |
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VM guest standby count |
Count |
The total number of times a VM guest was on standby in a specified period. |
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VM power off count |
Count |
The total number of times a VM has powered off in a specified period. |
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VM power on count |
Count |
The total number of times a VM has powered on in a specified period. |
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VM reset count |
Count |
The total number of times a VM has reset in a specified period. |
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VM suspend count |
Count |
The total number of times a VM was suspended in a specified period. |
Datastore metrics
The following table describes all of the supported datastore metrics for VMware.
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Metric |
Unit |
Description |
|---|---|---|
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Average read requests per second |
Count |
The average number of read commands issued per second to the datastore during the collection interval. |
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Average write requests per second |
Count |
Average number of write commands issued per second to the datastore during the collection interval. |
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Space actually used |
GB |
Total disk space used on all datastores visible to this object. |
VMware Credentials page
The VMware Credentials page allows you to add, edit, or delete VMware credentials in FortiMonitor.
To access the VMware Credentials page, select Monitoring > Infra Settings > VMware Settings from the navigation menu.
