VMware Discovery Event Monitor

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Overview

The VMware Discovery Event Monitor detects VMware VMs and hosts, automatically adding them to a device group that you specify.

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Use Cases

• Automatically detecting new VMs and adding them to your monitoring configuration

Monitoring Options

• Device Group: Specify the device group you'd like new devices to be added to.
• Options: Choose to add only virtual machines, only hosts, or both.
• Ignore: List any IP addresses or instance IDs that should not be added as a network device. Each entry must be on a separate line.

Authentication and Security

• The account must have view permissions for the VMware REST API or have admin rights.

Protocols

• HTTPS

Data Points

This event monitor generates the following data points:

Data Point	Description
Count of Detected Devices	The number of devices detected by the event monitor.

Sample Output