Monitoring Session Page (VMware)

The Monitoring Session page provides a comprehensive view of each monitoring session in your VMware environment. This topic includes descriptions of Tabs, Actions, and Sidebar Controls.

Tabs Menu

Tab	Description
Overview	Displays key information about the selected monitoring session, such as connections, tunnel and health status, deployment state, and information related to Application Intelligence statistics. You can view traffic trends (ingress/egress) hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. You can filter statistics by associated elements. For more information, refer to View Monitoring Session Statistics
Sources	Lists all monitored sources and targets. You can view/edit connection details, check deployment status, number of targets, and source health. For OVS Mirroring, the source tab also displays hypervisor and instance details.
Traffic Processing	Allows you to add and configure applications, tunnel endpoints, raw endpoints, and maps. View stats for each application, apply threshold templates, enable user-defined apps, and toggle distributed de-duplication. For more information, refer to Configure Monitoring Session Options (VMware ESXi)
V Series Nodes	Shows the V Series Nodes tied to the session. In the split view, you can view the node name, health, deployment status, host VPC, version, and management IP. You can also change the interfaces mapped to an individual GigaVUE V Series Node. For more information, refer to the Interface Mapping
Topology	Visualizes the monitored network fabric, showing connections, subnets, and instances. You can explore topology by selecting specific connections, offering a clear visualization of the monitored network elements. For more information, refer to Visualize the Network Topology (VMware ESXi).

Note:  Ensure that the GigaVUE V Series Node and GigaVUE-FM are time synchronized or configure NTP time synchronization.

Actions Button

The Monitoring Session page Actions button has the following options. The Actions menu is placed common in all the tabs explained above.

Button	Description
Delete	Deletes the selected Monitoring Session.
Clone	Duplicates the selected Monitoring Session.
Deploy	Deploys the selected Monitoring Session.
Undeploy	Undeploys the selected Monitoring Session.

Sidebar

You can use the icon on the left side of the Monitoring Session page to view the Monitoring Sessions list.

Select to filter the Monitoring Sessions list. In the side bar, you can:

• Create a new Monitoring Session

• Rename a Monitoring Session

• Hover over, click the check box of the required Monitoring Session(s) and perform bulk actions (Delete, Deploy, or Undeploy).