You create an instance of the Horizon Adapter on a vRealize Operations Manager node to receive communications from agents.

You can monitor multiple Horizon pods with a single Horizon Adapter instance. If you need to create multiple adapter instances, you must assign each adapter instance to a different node.

Prerequisites

Install the vRealize Operations for Horizon solution.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the vRealize Operations Manager user interface as an administrator.
  2. In the menu, click Administration and in the left pane click Solutions > Other Accounts.
  3. Click Add Account and select Horizon Adapter.
  4. In the Cloud Account Information section, enter a name and description for the account.
  5. In the Connect Information section, configure an ID, credential, and collector for the adapter instance.
    1. Enter an identifier for the adapter instance in the Adapter ID text box.
      The identifier must be unique across all Horizon Adapter instances in the cluster.
    2. Select a credential from the drop-down menu or click the Add icon to create a new credential.
      The credential includes a user-defined server key that is required for pairing broker agents to the adapter. You must provide the server key when you configure the broker agent.
    3. Select a collector from the drop-down menu.
      Important:
      • Creating the Horizon Adapter instance on a collector group is not supported. If a failover occurs and the Horizon Adapter instance is moved to a different collector in the group, it cannot continue to collect data.
      • Creating more than one Horizon Adapter instance per collector is not supported.
    4. Click Test Connection to test the connection with the credential that you selected.
  6. Click Add.
    The adapter instance is displayed under Other Accounts.

What to do next

Add a vRealize Operations for Horizon License Key