The hypervisor agent now specifically manages VMware ESXi hosts from version 5. For Microsoft Hyper-V, it will be sufficient to install the management agent directly on Windows.

It is not possible to install the management agent directly on the ESXi host, we will create a “virtual” agent in the tree and then an interrogating agent will retrieve the supervisory information through the VMware APIs.

From a node on your tree, right clic and select “New hypervisor”

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Now that it is created, we will fill in the authentication information :

  • Select the new agent and clic on Configuration / Hypervisor

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  • Fill in the authentication information as well as the agent that will query the hypervisor (it can be a VM hosted by this same hypervisor)

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(1) User account, “root” in the majority of cases
(2) Password of the hypervisor
(3) IP address of the Hypervisor
(4) Add the polling agent (choose a server agent that will be on 24/7)
(5) Save the informations

  • Your hypervisor is now supervised

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