8. vCloud Management and Monitoring Examples : 8.1 vCenter Operations Manager : 8.1.3 vCenter Operations Manager Example : 8.1.3.2. vFabric Hyperic Agent
   
8.1.3.2. vFabric Hyperic Agent
A Hyperic agent is installed on each physical or virtual machine that you want to manage with Hyperic. Agents auto-discover the software components running on the machine, and periodically rescan the platform for changes in its configuration. Hyperic agents gather performance and availability metrics; perform log and event tracking, and allow you to perform control functions such as starting and stopping servers. Agents send the inventory and performance data they collect to the Hyperic server.