Overview

The VMware Discovery Event Monitor detects VMware VMs and automatically adds them to a device group that you specify.

Use Cases

• Automatically detecting new VMs and adding them to your monitoring configuration

Monitoring Options

This event monitor provides the following options:

Device Group

Specify the device group you'd like new devices to be added to.

Options

Use this option to either add only virtual machines, only hosts, or both virtual machines and hosts.

Ignore

Use this section to list any internal/external IP address or instance id you wish NOT to be added as a network device. Each entry must be on a separate line.

Authentication and Security

The account that you specify must have view permissions for the VMware REST API or have admin rights.

Protocols

Data Points

This event monitor generates the following data points:

Data Point	Description
Count of Detected Devices	The number of devices detected by the event monitor.

Sample Output

Tutorial

To view the tutorial for this event monitor, click here.