Use the following steps to configure monitoring for VMware vSphere with VMware Tanzu.

Procedure

  1. From the left menu, click Data Sources > Integrations, and then click the Repository tab in the right pane.
  2. Click Add Account on the VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Kubernetes tile.
    Note:

    Alternatively, you can navigate to Data Sources > Integrations, and then click the Accounts tab. Click Add Accounts to configure the adapter instance.

  3. Click Kubernetes from the adapter list and configure the adapter instance.
  4. Select the credential you want to use to sign on to the environment from the drop-down menu. To add new credentials, click the + icon.

    Field Name

    Description
    Credential Kind

    Select the authentication to connect to the Kubernetes API Server. VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Kubernetes supports basic, client certificate, and token authentication types.

    Authentication Types:
    • Basic Auth: Uses HTTP basic authentication to authenticate API requests through authentication plugins.
    • Client Certification Auth: Uses client certificates to authenticate API requests through authentication plugins.
    • Token Auth: Uses bearer tokens to authenticate API requests through authentication plugins.
    Credential Name

    Enter the name by which you can identify the configured credentials.

    This will be stored in the Credential section in Integrations.
    Username (if Basic Auth is selected) Enter the username to access the Kubernetes cluster API. This value is present in the username field of the KubeConfig file.

    Password (if Basic Auth

    is selected)

    		 Enter the password to access the Kubernetes cluster API. This value is present in the password field KubeConfig file.

    Certificate Authority Data (if Client Certificate Auth is selected)

    		 Enter the Certificate Authority Data to perform TLS validation to connect to the cluster API. This value is present in the certificate-authority-data field in the KubeConfig file. If this value is skipped, then TLS validation will be skipped and the connection to the cluster will be insecure.

    Client Certificate Data (if Client Certificate Auth is selected)

    		 Enter the Certificate Authority Data of the API server. This value is present in the client-certificate-data field in the KubeConfig file.

    Client Key Data (if Client Certificate Auth is selected)

    		 Enter the value of the client-key-data field in the KubeConfig file.

    Bearer Token (if Token Auth is selected)

    		 Enter the value of the Token field from KubeConfig file to authenticate access to Kubernetes API.

    UAA/LDAP Username (only for TKGI Kubernetes clusters)
    Note: This is relevant only for clusters discovered by the TKGI adapter.
    This is the UAA/LDAP username from the TKGI adapter used to authenticate a cluster discovered via the TKGI adapter. This field is automatically populated by VMware Aria Operations when a TKGI Kubernetes cluster is discovered.
    UAA/LDAP Password (only for TKGI Kubernetes clusters)
    Note: This is relevant only for clusters discovered by the TKGI adapter.

    This is the UAA/LDAP password from the TKGI adapter used to authenticate a cluster discovered via the TKGI adapter. This field is automatically populated by VMware Aria Operations when a TKGI Kubernetes cluster is discovered.

    Enter the details of the proxy server to which VMware Aria Operations must connect to only if a proxy server is used to connect to TKG
    Proxy Hostname Enter the hostname of the proxy server to which VMware Aria Operations needs to connect.
    Proxy Port Enter the port of the proxy server.
    Proxy Username Enter the username to authenticate while connecting to the proxy server.
    Proxy Password Enter the password to authenticate while connecting to the proxy server.

    Enter the details of the Prometheus server only if you have selected Prometheus as the collector service. These details will be copied over to each Guest Cluster discovered subsequently.
    Prometheus Server Enter the URL of the Prometheus API server.
    Prometheus endpoint username Enter the username for the Prometheus server.

    Prometheus endpoint password

    		 Enter the password of the Prometheus server.

    Prometheus endpoint token (Only for the Red Hat OpenShift clusters)
    Note: This is relevant only for clusters discovered by the Red Hat OpenShift adapter.
    Enter the bearer token to authenticate the Prometheus server.
  5. Select the collector or collector group on which you want to run the adapter instance from the Collector/Groups drop-down. This option is set to the optimal collector by default.
  6. Click Validate Connection to check if you can successfully connect to the endpoint.
  7. Optionally, use Advanced Settings to define the following:

    Field Name

    Description

    Auto-discover TKG Workload/Guest Clusters

    Set this field to Enabled to discover TKG Guest Clusters. VMware Aria Operations will create create a new Kubernetes adapter instance for every new guest cluster discovered.

    Set this field to Deactivated if you want to configure each cluster manually. This is the default option selected.

    Auto-delete TKG Workload Kubernetes/Guest Clusters

    Set this field to Enabled to automatically delete the Kubernetes adapter corresponding to a Guest Cluster which has been deleted in the TKG environment.

    Set this field to Deactivated, to delete the adapter instances manually. This is the default option selected.
    vCenter Server

    Enter the IP or FQDN of the vCenter server on which the cluster has been created only if the cluster is running on a vCenter Server and this server is already monitored by the vCenter adapter instance.

    This will enable VMware Aria Operations build the relationship between the Kubernetes nodes and the VMs if the corresponding vCenter is already monitored by VMware Aria Operations.

    Note: For the mapping to occur successfully, the node IP should be the same as the VM IP.
    Java Process Monitoring Set this option to Enabled to monitor any java processes.

    Delete Non-Existent objects older than

    Select the period for which you want to retain the Kubernetes objects in VMware Aria Operations if they are deleted in the environment.

    Kubernetes entities are often short-lived. If the objects corresponding to these deleted entities are retained in VMware Aria Operations until the default retention period, there could be an accumulation the storage leading to growing storage requirements. This field allows the user to override the global settings and remove the objects sooner if needed.

    The default period set is the same as the global setting for the VMware Aria Operations platform. The other options available are – 2 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours and 24 hours.

    Note:

    The object deletion schedule applies to the VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Kubernetes only and overrides the global setting object deletion policy.
    cAdvisor Install Check

    Set this field to Enabled to check whether cAdvisor has been installed. Set this field to Deactivated to avoid checks to see whether cAdvisor has been enabled. This field is set to Enabled by default.
  8. Click Add.