VMware Event Collector
Overview
The VMware Event Collector microservice collects events from vmware devices and sends it to event collection topic for further processing.
Prerequisites
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A microservices cluster must be setup. Refer to Microservice Cluster Setup.
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Apache Pulsar must be installed. Refer to Apache Pulsar microservice.
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The following core microservices must be installed:
Setup
su - assure1
export NAMESPACE=a1-zone1-pri
export WEBFQDN=<Primary Presentation Web FQDN>
a1helm install vmware-event-collector assure1/vmware-event-collector -n $NAMESPACE --set global.imageRegistry=$WEBFQDN
Default Configuration
| Name | Value | Possible Values | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOG_LEVEL | INFO | FATAL, ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG | Logging level used by application. |
| TARGET_HOST | "" | Text | Contains the target host URL |
| PREFER_V6 | "false" | Boolean | Set it to true if device's ipv6 address to be given priority else ipv4 used. |
| REDUNDANCY_POLL_PERIOD | 5 | Integer | How often the secondary service checks to see if the primary is online, in seconds. |
| REDUNDANCY_FAILOVER_THRESHOLD | 4 | Integer | The number of failed polls before the secondary becomes the active application. |
| REDUNDANCY_FALLBACK_THRESHOLD | 1 | Integer | The number of successful polls before the secondary goes back to sleep. |
Configurations can be changed by passing the values to the a1helm install prefixed with the configData parent key.
Example of setting the log level to DEBUG
a1helm install ... --set configData.LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG
Example of enabling redundancy
Redundancy will not be enabled by default. To enable this functionality, pass the following to the install command:
a1helm install ... --set redundancy.enabled=true