You can create a group of agents that are configured with the same parameters.

Prerequisites

Verify that you are logged in to the VMware Aria Operations for Logs web user interface as a Super Admin user, or a user associated with a role that has the relevant permissions. See Create and Modify Roles for more information. The URL format of the web user interface is https://operations-for-logs-host, where operations-for-logs-host is the IP address or host name of the VMware Aria Operations for Logs virtual appliance.

Procedure

  1. Expand the main menu and navigate to Management > Agents.
  2. In the All Agents menu, Open the drop-down menu in the agent name field next to the Refresh button and click New Group.
  3. Provide a unique name and a description for the agent group and click New Group.
    The agent group is created and appears in the All Agents list, but is not saved.
  4. Specify one or more filters for the agent group. To create a filter, specify a field name, an operator, and a value.
    Filters can contain wildcards, such as * and ?. For example, you can select the OS filter contains and specify the value windows to identify all your Windows agents for configuration.
    1. Choose one of the following fields to filter on:
      • IP address
      • hostname
      • version
      • OS
    2. Select an operator from the drop-down menu and specify a value.
      Operator Description
      matches Finds strings that match the specified string and wildcard specification, where * means zero or more characters and ? means any single character. Prefix and postfix globbing is supported.

      For example, *test* matches strings such as test123 or my-test-run.

      does not match Excludes strings that match the specified string and wildcard specification, where * means zero or more characters and ? means any single character. Prefix and postfix globbing is supported.

      For example, test* filters out test123, but does not exclude mytest123. %test* does not filters out test123, but does exclude xtest123

      starts with Finds strings that start with the specified character string.

      For example, test finds test123 or test, but not my-test123.

      does not start with Excludes strings that start with the specified character string.

      For example, test filters out test123, but not my-test123.

  5. Specify the agent configuration values in the Agent Configuration area and click Save New Group.

Results

The agent configuration is applied after the next polling interval.