8.1.4.2. Retrieved Data
The vCenter Operations Manager Hyperic adapter can collect data from different resources and creates resource kinds dynamically according to platform types and server types in Hyperic. Resources in vCenter Operations represent Hyperic platforms and servers.
Resources in Hyperic are one of the following kinds.
A platform,
which is either an operating system platform
such as Linux, Solaris, Win
dows 32-bit
, or UNIX
, or a virtual and network platform
such as Cisco IOS, GemFire Distributed System, NetApp Filer, vSphere Host, or a v
Sphere virtual machine.
A server,
which is a software product that runs on a platform, such as Tomcat, JBoss, Exchange, SQL, or Oracle.
Services and platform services, which
are software components that run on either a s
erver or a p
latform. Server services can be either internal server components such as database tables or .NET
applications or they can be a deployed item such as CustomerEntityEJB. Examples of p
latform s
ervices include
DHCP, DNS, and CPU and network interfaces.
The Hyperic adapter can also collect data for Hyperic services. Service metrics are stored under a specific instance and group and the service name is used as the instance name.
Sources map to vCenter Operations resources using resource names in vCenter Operations to match the names from the eam_resource table in the Hyperic HQ database. All available types of resources in the source system can be collected.
The adapter can import relationships between Hyperic platforms and servers. Relationships are based on the platform_id column value in the eam_server table. Relationships are imported during manual discovery only.