8. vCloud Management and Monitoring Examples : 8.1 vCenter Operations Manager : 8.1.4 vCenter Operations Manager and vFabric Hyperic Integration : 8.1.4.2. Retrieved Data
   
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, Windows 32-bit, or UNIX, or a virtual and network platform such as Cisco IOS, GemFire Distributed System, NetApp Filer, vSphere Host, or a vSphere 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 server or a platform. 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 platform services 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.