MANAGER SETTINGS - VIRTUAL TOPOLOGY

This page appears when you click the Virtual Topology node under the MANAGER SETTINGS tree structure that appears when you click the Manager option from the Settings tile.

eG Enterprise is capable of automatically determining the mapping of applications to virtual hosts.

This is why, the Virtual topology mapping flag is set to Auto by default. This default setting ensures that eG Enterprise intelligently discovers which managed applications are actually executing on the VMs of a virtual host and automatically maps these applications to that virtual host in the Virtual Topology preview in the eG monitoring console. This mapping of applications to virtual hosts is important for root-cause diagnosis - for example, a problem with the virtual host (e.g., excessive disk slowdowns) can impact the performance of all the applications running on that host's virtual machines.

If you set the Virtual topology mapping flag to Manual, then, when adding applications for monitoring in an environment (from the COMPONENT page) where one/more hypervisors are already monitored, you will have to explicitly indicate whether/not the application being added is executing on a virtual host. If so, you will have to additionally pick the managed virtual host with which that application is associated.

Finally, click the Update button.