Manager Discovery - RHEV Servers via RHEV Manager

eG Enterprise embeds the ability to monitor the RHEV servers in an environment and the VMs operating on those servers. The first step to monitoring the RHEV servers is to identify those servers that require monitoring. The eG Enterprise system can auto-discover the RHEV servers in a virtualized environment using the RHEV managers that manage those servers. To enable this auto-discovery, you first need to enable the eG manager to connect to the RHEV manager in the environment. To discover the RHEV Servers, do the following:

1. Select the Virtual Platforms option from the Settings sub-node of the Manager Discovery node in the Discovery tree. Then, choose the RHEV Hypervisors option from the Choose a virtual platform to discover drop down.

2. First, you need to configure the RHEV manager with which the eG manager should connect for automatically discovering the RHEV servers that require monitoring. Click on the Add new RHEV Managers option from the What action would you like to perform? dropdown.

3. In the right panel, a RHEV Hypervisors section appears. To add a new RHEV Manager, specify the following in this section:

   • RHEV Manager Identify: Specify the IP address/host name of the RHEV manager in your environment.

     Note:

     If you choose to specify the IP address of the RHEV manager against RHEV Manager Identity, then make sure that you specify only an IPv4 address.

   • Use SSL to Connect to the RHEV Manager: Set this flag to Yes if the RHEV manager in your environment is SSL-enabled. Otherwise, set this flag to No.

   • Web Port: If the RHEV manager is SSL-enabled, then 8443 will be displayed here by default. On the other hand, if the manager is not SSL-enabled, the default Web Port will be 8080. If the RHEV manager in your environment listens on a different SSL or non-SSL port, then make corresponding changes to the default setting.

   • Discover RHEV Hypervisors using this RHEV Manager: If you want to discover RHEV servers in your environment using this RHEV manager, set this flag to Yes. If you only want to use this RHEV manager to obtain the outside view of VMs, set this flag to No.

   • Username to connect to RHEV Manager and Password for user: Specify the credentials (i.e., user name and password) of a user who has been assigned the RHEVMUser role. If no such user pre-exists, then create a special user for this purpose, assign the RHEVMUser role to this user, and provide his/her login credentials here.

   • Confirm password for user: Confirm the password of the RHEVMUser by retyping it here.

   • Domain name for the RHEV manager: Specify the name of the domain to which the RHEV manager belongs.

4. Upon clicking the Update button, a message box requesting your confirmation to proceed with the discovery will then appear. Click the Yes button in the message to trigger the discovery. Clicking the No button will save the details of the RHEV manager, but will not start the discovery. In this case, you can use the RHEV manager configuration so saved to perform discovery at a later point in time. This way, you can add the details of multiple RHEV managers to the eG Enterprise system.

5. To view the details of all the RHEV managers that are added, select the View configured RHEV managers from What action would you like to perform?. The right panel will then change to display the names and other details of the RHEV managers that have been configured.

6. To modify the details of an RHEV manager, select the Modify configured RHEV managers option from the What action would you like to perform? drop-down. From the RHEV Manager identity (IP or Host name) list in the right panel, select the IP address of the RHEV manager to be modified. Upon selection of the RHEV manager's IP address, the other parameters in the right panel will be populated with the corresponding details. You can change any of the displayed details to suit your needs. Finally, click the Update button to save the changes.

7. To delete an RHEV manager, select the Delete configured RHEV managers option from the What action would you like to perform? drop-down. Select the check box corresponding to the RHEV manager to be deleted and click the Delete button to delete it. To delete all the RHEV managers at one shot, select the check box just before the column heading, RHEV Manager IP / Host, and click the Delete button.