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This module consists of the following exercises:
Module | Description | Time required |
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Add Your Hyper-V Host Server | Use Auto Discovery to import a Hyper-V Host Server and its inventory of VMs. | 1 slice |
Validation Step 1: Explore the Monitored Inventory | Understand how Uptime Infrastructure Monitor organizes an imported and synchronized Hyper-V Server inventory. | 1 slice |
Validation Step 2: View the Hyper-V Server Inventory | Understand how Uptime Infrastructure Monitor allows you to focus on the parts of the Hyper-V Server that you actually want to monitor. | 1 slice |
Validation Step 3: View Metrics for the Hyper-V host server and a guest VM | View metrics available on a summary page for a host server, as well as a guest VM. | ½ slice |
By default, the Collect Uptime Agent data check box is clear. For this exercise, clear the Collect WMI Agentless data check box as well. This means the metrics Uptime Infrastructure Monitor retrieves for each monitored VM is what the Hyper-V server itself collects and provides to Uptime Infrastructure Monitor. For these "basic VMs," their metrics are a subset of what can be collected from the guest operating system using the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Agent or using WMI. For simplicity in this guide, we work with a "basic" Hyper-V server inventory. You can learn more about agent- and WMI-based data collection in the next module, where you are adding physical servers. |
After adding the Hyper-V server and closing the Add System window in the previous section, the main UI window displays the Infrastructure view:
If you look at your Uptime Infrastructure Monitor inventory, you can see that part of the Hyper-V server import process included the automatic creation of a top-level Element Group (which are folders and subfolders used to organize Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Elements): Discovered Virtual Machines. This Element Group includes the virtual machines managed by Hyper-V, and these contents can be further rearranged in Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, for example, by platform or function.
Alongside the Infrastructure Group, the Hyper-V server itself appears as a top-level Element in Infrastructure. It includes the list of VMs that comprise the Hyper-V server inventory. Click the + icon beside your Hyper-V server to expand its view.
Consider this example:
Virtual machines can be moved elsewhere in Infrastructure, but the hierarchy remains intact as a reflection of the Hyper-V server:
Depending on the size of your Hyper-V Server inventory, importing one could exceed your Uptime Infrastructure Monitor license. If this were to happen, you might see the following:
In this scenario, you need not worry. Uptime Infrastructure Monitor has in fact imported these; it is simply ignoring them. We learn more about this in the next section. |
This validation step can be particularly enlightening if your Hyper-V Server import exceeded your license, and resulted in automatic exclusion of VMs from the monitored inventory in Uptime Infrastructure Monitor.
In the left menu, the Info tab is active. Click Inventory.
This displays a list of all of your Hyper-V server's inventory. It is divided into two main groups: Elements that are monitored by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, and Elements that are currently ignored. Initially, during the Hyper-V server import, VMs that were imported after the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor license was exceeded were placed in the Ignored Elements section. You can use this Inventory view to ignore monitored Elements, and begin monitoring currently ignored Elements.
You can also use this Inventory view to Enable Monitoring for a Hyper-V server Element. This can be done when an Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Agent is installed on a VM, allowing Uptime Infrastructure Monitor to collect metrics that are more detailed than what is provided by the Hyper-V server. |
In this module, if the inventory imported from Hyper-V server exceeds open slots in your license, some of the inventory is ignored, and you have no space left to add Elements to your monitored inventory. In the next two tracks In this Getting Started Guide, you are adding servers and network devices. If you plan on following either or both of these tracks, you need to anticipate the number of servers and network devices you add. To follow the server track, you'll need at least 2; to follow the network device track, you'll need at least 1. The easiest way to free up space is to manually ignore VMs; each VM you ignore opens a license spot for a new Element. Return to the Inventory Detail view for the Hyper-V server (Infrastructure > gear icon > View > Inventory). Select VMs, then click Add Selected Elements to Ignore. The spots are freed up in your license, which you can verify by clicking Config > License Info. Alternatively, you can also contact your Uptime Sales representative at [email protected] to look into increasing the size of your license. |
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