VMware Aria Operations for Networks 6.14

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Adding a Data Source in
VMware Aria Operations for Networks

You must add data sources into
VMware Aria Operations for Networks
 to gather data of your data center.
To add a data source, go to
Settings
Accounts and Data Sources
Add Source
.
After adding a data source, you see the
Accounts and Data Sources
 page where data sources are categorized based on the following options:
  • All: Displays all the available data sources.
  • With Problems: Displays the data sources where
    VMware Aria Operations for Networks
     has found one or more problems.
  • With Recommendations: Displays auto generated recommendations from
    VMware Aria Operations for Networks
     for the data sources that require additional information.
Each data source displays the following details:
Properties
Description
Type
Displays the type of data source.
Name
Displays the name of the data source.
Identifier
Displays IP address or FQDN details of data source.
Last Metric Collection
Displays the time stamp of the last metric data collection.
Last Configuration Collection
Displays the time stamp of the last configuration data collection.
Local Tags
Displays all the local tags associated with the data source.
Polling Interval
Displays the polling interval that is defined for the data source.
Discovered Entities
Displays the number of VMs that are discovered for that data source.
The Discovered Entities column is populated only if the data source is
VMware vCenter
 or AWS.
Flows
Displays the count of flows for the data source.
Data Collection
Indicates if the date collection on the data source is enabled or not.
While adding a data source, do not add the same data source more than once using different IP addresses or FQDNs.
To select the columns that you want to view in the table, you can click the
Manage Table Columns
 icon on the table header. You can view the details of maximum five columns at a time.
To edit or delete a data source, you can click the
More Options
 icon next to the data source. For the data sources that support customizable polling interval, you can also use the
Collect Now
 option to run the configuration data collection process.
VMware Aria Operations for Networks
 provides the following functions to enable easy access to the information of data sources.
  • You can search a data source by name, IP address, or by the collector VM name by using the search bar located above the column headers.
  • You can filter information by different data sources in the
    Type
     column. You can also filter data sources based on data collection in the
    Data Collection
     column.
  • You can sort information by clicking the
    sort
     icon on any column.
VMware Aria Operations for Networks
 enables you to add different types of VMware products and other third party data sources ranging from public cloud, containers, firewalls, routers and switches, and load balancers.

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