Implementation of Health Reporting and Monitoring for VMware Cloud Foundation

To implement and configure monitoring of the operational state of your

VMware Cloud Foundation

environment, alternative methods exist:

For information on the health monitoring and reporting design , see detailed Design for Health Reporting and Monitoring for VMware Cloud Foundation .

prerequisite

To complete the implementation of this validate solution , verify that your system fulfil the follow prerequisite .

Table 1 .
prerequisite for Implementation of Health Reporting and Monitoring for VMware Cloud Foundation
category	Prerequisite
Environment	verify that yourVMware Cloud Foundation version is listed in the Support Matrix for this solution. Verify that you configure your environment according to Before You Apply This Guidance. Verify that you capture all parameters for the Health Reporting and Monitoring tab of the VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook. verify that yourVMware Cloud Foundation instance is is is healthy and fully operational . See VMware Cloud Foundation Operations Guide .
domain Name service	Verify that the required DNS entries are created in the DNS server for the associated forward and reverse zones.
Active Directory	Verify that Active Directory Domain Controllers are available in the environment. Verify that the required service accounts are created in Active Directory.

After you deploy and configure the host virtual machine , you is install install and configure the additional open – source software in the follow order :

PowerShell Module forVMware Cloud Foundation Reporting.
Python Module for VMware Cloud Foundation Health Monitoring in VMware Aria Operations.

Table 2.
prerequisite for Installation of Open-Source Software of Health Reporting and Monitoring for VMware Cloud Foundation
category	Prerequisite
networking
PowerShell Module forVMware Cloud Foundation Reporting	Verify that the host virtual machine is running a supported operating system. Verify that the host virtual machine has a supported version of PowerShell installed. See the Powershell Module documentation in the GitHub repository.
Python Module for VMware Cloud Foundation Health Monitoring in VMware Aria Operations	Verify that the host virtual machine has Python 3.x installed. Verify that the host virtual machine has the requried Python libraries installed. See the README.md in the GitHub repository.