appliance monitoring: monitored item

monitored_item structure Structure representing requested monitored item data.

Representations:

{
    "category""string",
    "description""string",
    "id""obj-103",
    "instance""string",
    "name""string",
    "units""string"
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:MonitoredItem xmlns:ns0="http://vmware.com/appliance/monitoring" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <id>obj-103</id>
  <category>string</category>
  <description>string</description>
  <name>string</name>
  <instance>string</instance>
  <units>string</units>
</ns0:MonitoredItem>

Attributes:

Name Type Description
Required
id string monitored item ID Ex: CPU, MEMORY

When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the field must be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.appliance.monitoring. When operations return a value of this structure as a result, the field will be an identifier for the resource type: com.vmware.appliance.monitoring.

name string monitored item name Ex: "Network write speed"

units string Y-axis label EX: "Mbps", "%"

category string category Ex: network, storage etc

instance string instance name Ex: eth0

description string monitored item description Ex: com.vmware.applmgmt.mon.descr.net.rx.packetRate.eth0