From vRealize Operations 8.4 onwards, vRealize Application Remote Collector is deprecated and is no longer available for download from the vRealize Operations user interface. VMware recommends that you migrate from vRealize Application Remote Collector to cloud proxy to monitor application services.
Migrating from vRealize Application Remote Collector to Cloud Proxy
For information about migrating from vRealize Application Remote Collector to cloud proxy, see KB 83059.
FromvRealize Operations 8.4 onwards, the application remote collectors you added and configured in a previous release, are displayed in the page. You can edit and delete the VMware vRealize Application Management Adapter instance from the page. You cannot add or download instances of vRealize Application Remote Collector.
Prerequisites and Port Information
If you have not migrated to cloud proxy, as a reference, here are the prerequisites and port information details for vRealize Application Remote Collector.
Prerequisites
- Verify that you have configured a vCenter adapter. The vCenter Server user account with which the vCenter adapter is configured in vRealize Operations, should have the following permissions:
Guest operation modifications
,Guest operation program execution
, andGuest operation queries
. See Install an Agent from the UI.Note: For script-based agent install and uninstall, theGuest operation modifications
,Guest operation program execution
, andGuest operation queries
permissions are not required. - Ensure that the ports 9000 and 8883 on vRealize Application Remote Collector are reachable from vRealize Operations.
- Ensure that the NTP settings of vRealize Operations and vRealize Application Remote Collector are in sync.
Port Information
For detailed steps and prerequisites of application monitoring with vRealize Application Remote Collector, see the vRealize Operations 8.3 documentation.