Discover custom Services in Aria Operations

Products

• VMware Aria Operations 8.x
• VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) 8.x

Issue/Introduction

Unable to discover custom services in Aria Operations

Environment

Aria Operations 8.x

Resolution

Steps to discover custom service:

1. Navigate to Configure > Applications and Services > Service Discovery
2. Click on "Add Service Definition"

3. From the "Add Custom Service" menu choose between process or regex. When chose process a specific port number is required on which the service is running. This Port number cannot be changed. For regex just the name of the service is required. Below is an example of a custom service.

 

Note: In order to discover a custom service in Aria Operations it is required that the service should be listening on a TCP/UDP Port. If the Service is not listening on any Port, It cannot be discovered.

 

Run the below command on terminal to check for the listening services.

For Windows: netstat -anob

For Linux : netstat -tunlp

Additional Information

Please refer to below document for more information on configuring the service discovery.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/8.18/Configuring-Operations/GUID-B9095E9B-7F10-4B2F-95A9-3D54CF5038FF.html