Telemetry

The telemetry feature facilitates users to provide consent whether to send the data from the
VMware Aria Automation Plug-in
to
VMware
.
The following data will be sent to VMware after the user provides the consent:
  • Organization Id
  • Projects
  • Deployments
  • Catalog items
To provide consent to send data or not, the user must navigate to the
Manage Endpoint
table and click the existing endpoint, or while registering a new endpoint, the consent pop-up will be displayed.
  • To provide consent, click
    Yes
    . The scheduled job will start sending telemetry data to VMware and the consent pop-up will not be prompted again for the user.
  • To not provide consent, click
    No
    . The telemetry data will not be sent to VMware and a consent pop-up will be prompted after every 30 days for further consent.
  1. If the user responds to the consent pop-up as
    Yes
    but do not wish to send the telemetry data to VMware, then the user needs to perform the following steps:
    1. Navigate to
      x_vmw_cloudservice.telemetry_last_trigger
      system property.
    2. Open the system property and in the
      value
      option, remove the date and time, and click
      Update
      .
    3. Search for the
      x_wm_cloudservice.customer_consent_value
      system property.
    4. Open the system property and set the value as
      false
      .
    5. When the next consent pop-up is prompted, click
      No
      , so that telemetry data will not be sent to VMware.
  2. If the user responds to the consent pop-up as
    No
    but intends to send the telemetry data to VMware, then the user needs to perform the following steps:
    1. Navigate to
      x_vmw_cloudservice.telemetry_last_trigger
      system property.
    2. Open the system property and in
      value
      , remove the date and time, and click
      Update
      .
    3. Navigate to the
      Manage Endpoint
      table, and open the existing endpoint.
    4. When the consent pop-up is prompted, click
      Yes
      , so that telemetry data will be sent to VMware.