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Lesson 4 of 7

Connect your platform

15 min Company administrator Updated
Objective

Declare your first source, with a read-only account and an address the collector can reach.

The steps

  1. On Settings › Integration, click the tile of your platform.
  2. Choose the collector that will poll it, and give the source a name.
  3. Enter the full address, with https:// and the port if it is not 443.
  4. Enter the read-only account prepared in the first lesson. The secret is encrypted, and is never shown again.
  5. Choose the Collection frequency. Every 4 hours is the recommended setting.
  6. Click Connect the source.

By platform

Platform Example address Credential
VMware vSphere https://vcenter.example.local Username and password
Proxmox VE https://pve.example.local:8006 API token: user@realm!token=UUID
Xen Orchestra https://xoa.example.local Authentication token
Nutanix Prism Central https://prism.example.local:9440 Username and password
Microsoft Hyper-V A cluster node, port 5986 Username and password
OpenShift Virtualization, Superphenix https://api.example.local:6443 Service account token
HPE VM Essentials https://vme.example.local VME Manager API token

Other platforms join this list regularly: the Integration page shows those available today.

Declare the highest entry point. A vCenter covers all its hosts, and Prism Central all its AHV clusters. Two sources on the same scope would count every machine twice.

The certificate

Verify the TLS certificate stays ticked when your platform presents a recognized certificate. With an internal authority, install it on the collector machine, or untick verification for that source.

If you get stuck

The source stays waiting for its first collection

Click Collect on its card, then open its logs. The next lesson explains how to read them.

I do not know which entry point to choose

Take the one that sees the widest and that you already administer: the vCenter rather than an ESXi host, Xen Orchestra rather than an XCP-ng host, Prism Central rather than a cluster.

Go further

On-premise collectors Documentation · requires your account Xen Orchestra (XCP-ng, XenServer) Documentation · requires your account Nutanix (Prism Central, AHV) Documentation · requires your account Microsoft Hyper-V Documentation · requires your account OpenShift Virtualization & Superphenix Documentation · requires your account HPE VM Essentials Documentation · requires your account

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