The Management Pack for VMware Skyline consists of a PAK file that contains default dashboards for the objects that the solution identifies.

To install the management pack, download the PAK file from the VMware Marketplace to a temporary folder on your local system. For more information, see Installing and Configuring Integrations in VMware Aria Operations.

After you install the Management Pack for VMware Skyline, configure an instance for Skyline from which you are collecting data.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. From the left the menu, select Data Sources > Integrations and then select the Accounts tab from the left pane.
  2. From the Accounts tab, click Add Account.
  3. From the Accounts Types page, click Skyine Adapter.
  4. Configure the instance settings.

    Field Name

    Action

    Display Name

    Enter a name for the Skyline Service.

    Description

    (Optional) Enter a description for the instance.

    Credential

    Select the credential you want to use to sign on to the environment from the drop-down menu. To add new credentials to access the Skyline environment, click the plus sign.

    • Credential Name. The name by which you are identifying the configured credentials.

    • CSP Refresh token. Provide a CSP Refresh token. For details on generating a refresh token, see Generating CSP Refresh Token

      Note:

      Ensure that you do not create more than one adapter instances with the same CSP refresh token for the same organization.

    Provide the HTTP proxy details in the following text boxes if you want to set up the Skyline adapter instance on VMware Aria Operations with no Internet access.

    • Proxy Host Name

    • Proxy Port

    • Proxy User name

    • Proxy Password

    Note:

    If you have a private Internet connectivity in the VMware Aria Operations environment, it is advised to deploy the 1.1 or a later version of Management Pack for VMware Skyline to collect metrics from VMware Skyline.

    Collector/Group

    Determine which collector or collector group is used to manage the Skyline-related adapter instance on VMware Aria Operations. If you have only one cloud account, select Default collector group.

    Validate Connection

    Click VALIDATE CONNECTION to initiate the authentication request to the CSP authentication service.

    Note:

    By default, port 443 is used for connectivity from VMware Aria Operations to skyline.vmware.com.

    Advanced Settings

    You can filter the findings based on the severities and finding categories.

    Click the Skyline Findings Severity drop-down menu and select Critical, Moderate, or Trivial.

    Click the Skyline Finding Categories drop-down menu and select Compute, Network, Security, or Storage.

    Note:

    You select one or multiple settings to filter findings when configuring the Skyline adapter.
  5. Click ADD.
  6. Verify that the adapter is configured and collecting data.
    Table 1. Successful Configuration Indicators

    Where to View the Information

    Information to View

    Skyline data is available in the Skyline Overview Dashboard and the Skyline Alerts Details Dashboard.

    Skyline findings, alerts and other data can be viewed in the dashboards. For more information, see Dashboards in VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for VMware Skyline

    Skyline alerts are made available in the VMware Aria Operations under the Alerts tab.

    Navigate to Triggered Alerts and filter the skyline alerts using the Active and Skyline alert filters.

    Skyline alerts and findings are available with recommendations and symptoms. For example:

    • Alert: Skyline - (vSphere-ClusterWideStorageRescan-KB#1039088) - Cluster-wide storage rescan from vCenter Server causes ESXi/ESX hosts and virtual machines to become unresponsive.

    • Recommendations: This issue is resolved in VMware ESXi 5.5 Patch 1.

    • Symptoms: Risk if no action taken: Infrastructure Stability

    Note:
    • The default collection interval for the Skyline adapter instance is 240 minutes.
    • The minimum recommended collection interval for the Skyline adapter instance is 240 minutes.