Monitoring and resolving ESX agent issues

With the ESX Agent Manager API, you can obtain status and state data about all the ESX agencies that a solution creates. The status of an ESX agency reflects the status of all the ESX agents that are running in the ESX agency.

Solutions can only access data about ESX agencies that they create. A solution cannot access the data of ESX agencies that other solutions create on the same host.

You can use ESX Agent Manager to monitor and track many of the issues that can occur when you deploy ESX agent virtual machines. ESX Agent Manager handles updates to the deployment specifications of ESX agent virtual machines. ESX Agent Manager responds to changes in the vCenter Server instance in which it runs. If ESX Agent Manager encounters a conflict and cannot satisfy the requirements of an update to a deployment specification, it reports the conflict to the solution as an issue and shows the issue in the ESX Agent Manager user interface.

The issues that the ESX Agent Manager monitors relate to the goal state and status of ESX agencies and agents. If ESX Agent Manager encounters an issue, it sets the status of the ESX agency or agent to red and alerts the solution about the issue. ESX Agent Manager can resolve certain issues if you click the vertical ellipsis icon and then select Resolve Issues in the ESX Agent Manager user interface.