Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of Hybrid Cloud Observability and is also available in a standalone module, Server & Application Monitor (SAM). Hybrid Cloud Observability and SAM are built on the self-hosted SolarWinds Platform.

VMware API poller template

Use this SAM API poller template to monitor VMware vCenter inventory of entities such as virtual machines (VMs) and hosts.

Prerequisites

  • Configure Basic Authentication credentials with read access to entity types. See API poller authorization and authentication.
  • The first API request retrieves a session ID that is included in subsequent requests.
  • Request headers include vmware-api-session-id.

Notes

  • Default thresholds are not set for this template.
  • For reference, see vCenter (Management) API (© 2020 VMware, Inc., available at code.vmware.com/apis, obtained on March 22, 2020).
  • Here is an API request example:
    https://${DisplayName}/rest/com/vmware/cis/session

Available metrics

All clusters

The number of visible (subject to permission checks) clusters in vCenter.

Unit: Count

All datacenters

The number of visible (subject to permission checks) datacenters in vCenter.

Unit: Count

All datastores

The number of visible (subject to permission checks) datastores in vCenter.

Unit: Count

All folders

The number of visible (subject to permission checks) folders in vCenter.

Unit: Count

All hosts

The number of visible (subject to permission checks) hosts in vCenter.

Unit: Count

All networks

The number of visible (subject to permission checks) networks in vCenter.

Unit: Count

All resource pools

The number of visible (subject to permission checks) resource pools in vCenter.

Unit: Count

All services

The number of vCenter services.

Unit: Count

All virtual machines

The number of visible (subject to permission checks) virtual machines in vCenter

Unit: Count

All powered on virtual machines

The number of visible (subject to permission checks) virtual machines in vCenter that are powered on.

Unit: Count

All suspended virtual machines

The number of visible (subject to permission checks) virtual machines in vCenter that are suspended.

Unit: Count

All powered off virtual machines

The number of visible (subject to permission checks) virtual machines in the vCenter that are powered off.

Unit: Count