Configure Monitoring Session

GigaVUE‑FM collects inventory data on all V Series nodes deployed in your environment through vCenter connections. You can design your monitoring session to include or exclude the target VMs you want to monitor. You can also choose to monitor egress, ingress, or all traffic. 

When a new target VM is added to your environment, GigaVUE‑FMautomatically detects it. If the detected VM matches the defined selection criteria, your monitoring session displays it. 

Similarly, when a traffic monitoring target VM is removed, the monitoring sessions are updated to show the removed instance. 

Important! Before deploying a monitoring session, you need to deploy a V Series node on each host where you want to monitor traffic.

Limitations:

• Link transformation and multiple links between two entities are not supported in V Series nodes of ESXi. 

• Pre-filtering is not supported on VMware ESXi running with V Series nodes.

• Pre-filtering is not supported on VMware ESXi running with V Series nodes.

 

Refer to the following topics for details:

• Create a Monitoring Session (VMware)
• Monitoring Session Page (VMware)
• Create Raw Endpoint (VMware vCenter)
• Create a New Map
• Add Applications to Monitoring Session
• Interface Mapping
• To deploy the monitoring session:
• View Monitoring Session Statistics
• Visualize the Network Topology
• Configure VMware Settings