Eight VeloCloud application services are supported in VMware Aria Operations. The supported application services are listed here. Some of the application services have mandatory properties which you must configure. Some of the application services have pre-requirements that you must configure first. After you configure the properties, data is collected.

VeloCloud Orchestrator

VeloCloud Orchestrator and the following services are supported in VMware Aria Operations.

  • VeloCloud Orchestrator
  • Nginx
    Note: To activate the plugin for ngnix service you must use the loopback address in the url http://127.0.0.1/nginx_status.
  • Clickhouse
  • Network Time Protocol
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Java Application
    Note: Java application gets discovered after bootstrapping a VeloCloud Orchestrator virtual machine, but you must ignore it, as we do not monitor the Java application.
In VeloCloud Orchestrator, we monitor the following services. For each of these services we display a metric which indicates the service status:
  • Backend
  • Portal
  • Upload
VeloCloud Orchestrator details.
Name Mandatory? Comment
Display Name Yes Display Name of the VeloCloud Orchestrator instance.

Nginx

Nginx is supported in VMware Aria Operations.

Name Mandatory? Comment
Display Name Yes Display Name of the application instance.
Status Page URL Yes http://127.0.0.1/nginx_status
SSL CA No Path to the SSL CA file on the end point VM.
SSL Certificate No Path to the SSL Certificate file on the end point VM.
SSL Key No Path to the SSL Key file on the end point VM.
Skip SSL Verification. No Use SSL but skip chain & host verification. Expected: True/False.

ClickHouse

ClickHouse is supported in VMware Aria Operations.

Name Mandatory? Comment
Display Name Yes Display Name of the application instance.
Servers URL Yes http://127.0.0.1:8123
User name No User name for the ClickHouse service.
Password No Password

NTPD

NTPD is supported in VMware Aria Operations.

Name Mandatory? Comment
Display Name Yes Display Name of the application instance.

MySQL

MySQL is supported in VMware Aria Operations.

To activate the MySQL plug-in and fetch the credentials, refer to the article Steps to fetch password for telegraf user of MySQL, while activating plugin (81153) at the VMware Support Knowledge Base.

Use the port number 3306 to run MySQL and the telegraf credentials and activate the plug-in.

Name Mandatory? Comment
Display Name Yes Display Name of the application instance.
Port Yes The port where MySQL is running. Example: 3306
User name Yes User name for the MySQL service. Example: Root
password Yes Password
SSL CA No Path to the SSL CA file on the end point VM.
SSL Certificate No Path to the SSL Certificate file on the end point VM.
SSL Key No Path to the SSL Key file on the end point VM.
Hostname No Optional hostname for the MySQL Service
Databases No Comma-separated list of databases to monitor. Each of the database names to be monitored must be enclosed in single quotes and the databases themselves should be comma-separated. For example, 'database1','database2','database3'.
TLS Connection No Accepted values are true, false, and skip-verify.

Redis

Redis is supported in VMware Aria Operations.

Name Mandatory? Comment
Display Name Yes Display Name of the application instance.
Redis URL Yes servers = ["tcp://localhost:6379"]
SSL CA No Secure Socket Layer Certification Authority.
SSL Certificate No Secure Socket Layer Certificate.
SSL Key No Secure Socket Layer Key
Skip SSL Verification. No Skips verification for SSL.

VeloCloud Gateway

VeloCloud Gateway and the following services are supported in VMware Aria Operations

  • Network Time Protocol
  • VeloCloud Gateway
In VeloCloud Gateway, we monitor the following processes. For each of these processes, we display a metric which indicates the process status.
  • bgpd
  • watchquagga
  • gwd
  • mgd
  • natd
  • ssh
  • vc procmon
  • vcsyscmd
VeloCloud Gateway details.
Name Mandatory? Comment
Display Name Yes Display Name of the VeloCloud Gateway instance.

NTPD

NTPD is supported in VMware Aria Operations.

Name Mandatory? Comment
Display Name Yes Display Name of the application instance.