VMware Tools and Service Discovery in Aria Operations Manager 8.18x
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VMware Tools and Service Discovery in Aria Operations Manager 8.18x

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Article ID: 308350

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Updated On: 12-11-2024

Products

VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

This article provides details on the supported versions of VMware Tools when used with Aria Operations 8.18 Service Discovery

Environment

Aria Operations 8.18x

Cause

How does service discovery help discover services running in each VM. 

Resolution

The following information provides the supported versions of VMware tools for Service Discovery.

Service Discovery for Aria Operations 8.18 requires the following VMware VMTools versions installed on the monitoring VMs:

  • You must have a vCenter Adapter instance configured, and be monitoring the same vCenter Server instance that is used to discover services.
  • 12.3.0 and above (12.3.5 or is required required for end point VM on which you want to deploy the Telegraf agent)




Additional Information

Customers running Aria Operations 8.18 the supported tools versions are required for Service Discovery to work.  

Virtual machines with unsupported versions of Vmware Tools will not have services discovered.
 
For Windows, ensure that the following modules are installed on the OS:
 1. Microsoft.PowerShell.Core (default)
 2. Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility
 3. Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
 4. SmbShare (for net share)
 5. netstat utility

Additionally:

  1. Ensure the OS is Windows Server 2008R2 SP2 and above.
  2. Going outside of VMware Aria Operations to access vSphere to update VMware Tools is not supported.