Create a Monitoring Session

You have the flexibility of installing GigaVUE-FM across various supported platforms. Additionally, you can effectively manage deployments in any of the cloud platform as long as there exists IP connectivity for seamless operation.

GigaVUE‑FM automatically collects inventory data on all target instances available in your cloud environment. You can design your monitoring session to include or exclude the instances that you want to monitor. You can also choose to monitor egress, ingress, or all traffic.

When a new target instance is added to your cloud environment, GigaVUE‑FM automatically detects and adds the instance into your monitoring session. Similarly, when an instance is removed, it updates the monitoring sessions to show the removed instance.

Note:   You can have multiple monitoring sessions per monitoring domain.

You can create multiple monitoring sessions within a monitoring domain.

To create a new monitoring session:

  1. In GigaVUE‑FM, on the left navigation pane, select Traffic > Virtual > Orchestrated Flows > VMware. The Monitoring Sessions page appears.
  2. Click New to open the Create a New Monitoring Session page.
  3. Enter the appropriate information for the monitoring session as described in the following table.

    Field

    Description

    Alias

    The name of the monitoring session.

    Monitoring Domain

    The name of the monitoring domain that you want to select.

    Connection

    The connection(s) that are to be included as part of the monitoring domain. You can select the required connections that need to be part of the monitoring domain.

    Distribute traffic

    Enabling the "Distribute Traffic" option identifies duplicate packets across different GigaVUE V Series Nodes when traffic from various targets is routed to these instances for monitoring.

    For more information, refer to Distributed De-duplication

  4. Click Create. The Monitoring Session details page appears displaying the specified session information and target VMs.

Note:  In a Monitoring Session, if a selected VM is connected to VSS and VDS, then the GigaVUE-FM can create tapping for both VSS and VDS network.

The Monitoring Session page also has the following buttons:

Button

Description
Edit

Opens the Edit page for the selected monitoring session.

Note:  In case of an error while editing a monitoring session, undeploy and deploy the monitoring session again.
Delete Deletes the selected monitoring session.
Clone Duplicates the selected monitoring session.
Deploy Deploys the selected monitoring session.
Undeploy Undeploys the selected monitoring session.
Apply Threshold You can use this button to apply the threshold template created for monitoring cloud traffic health. Refer to Monitor Cloud Health for more detailed information on cloud traffic health, how to create threshold templates and how to apply threshold templates.