Using the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics

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This guide provides information to perform various operations in the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics user interface in web browser.

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Log in to VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics from Web Browsers
VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics provides a user interface to log in, upload and analyze the log bundles or directly connect to the problematic environment run the diagnostics and other scans. User can also use the web interface for scheduling the periodic checks on their environment. Web interface can also be used for configuration, password, user management, downloading and performing the updates of the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics.
Operations in the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics
You can upload, analyze, run security, health, pre-upgrade, drivers, and hardware scans periodically and view or get email notifications of the reports using the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics. The intent base analysis has been introduced to provide more flexibility to product administrators. Now, you can select the product and related workflows that are more aligned with your intent and operations.
Direct Connect and Analyze (Live or Online Analysis)
You can use this option to perform live analysis on an environment in which the problem has occurred or you want to run or schdule available diagnostics checks to proactively monitor the environment. The VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics will require set of details about the environment, post which it will connect to it, collect the required data, run the analysis, and generate the reports with details about findings or current state.
Offline Log Bundle Based Analysis
You can use this option to perform analysis on an existing log bundle of the supported product and version. You can use the local upload or remote file upload feature depending on the location of the log bundle. At run time all applicable checks will be selected automatically without you requiring to specify any.
Summary of Supported Products, Analysis Mode, and Checks Available
The VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics supports two modes of analysis runs. You can use the Connect and Analyze method to perform live analysis and Upload Log Bundle for the offline analysis by uploading the log bundles of the target server running supported product and version.
Interacting with the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics using REST API
The VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics provides rich set of REST APIs using which you can Configure, Manage and Operate Analysis related tasks. These are documented using OpenAPI Specification, Version 3.0 and available as part of the deployment.
Working with Analysis Reports
The VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics creates report for each of the Analysis Run. These reports are available under Show Reports section of the UI. These reports provide a consolidated summary and findings of all checks included for each of the target part of the analysis.
Registering VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics Plug-in with VMware vCenter Server
The VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics supports VMware vCenter Server plug-in registration from its user interface. After successful plug-in registration, you can trigger the health or diagnostics analysis, monitor the task status, and view the analysis report within the VMware vCenter Server user interface.
Help and Support
You can get help on issues faced during installation, operations, or any queries on the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics.
View the CEIP Data Collected for Reporting and Analytics
The administrators or the security teams in your organization might be interested to know the data collected by the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics as part of CEIP. The Tool Usage Report provides insight into the data collected.

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