When you create an
agency, you define the goal state of the ESX agents that the agency contains.
The status of an ESX agency reflects the situation of the ESX agency in
relation to its goal state.
ESX Agent Manager notifies a
solution of the status of its ESX agencies. ESX Agent Manager defines three
possible statuses for ESX agencies.
ESX Agent
Status
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Green
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The ESX agency has achieved its goal state.
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Yellow
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ESX Agent Manager is working to move the ESX
agency into its goal state.
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Red
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The ESX agency cannot achieve its goal
state. The solution or the vSphere administrator must actively resolve one or
more issues. ESX Agent Manager reports the issues to the solution in the agency
runtime. ESX Agent Manager can resolve certain issues if you select the agency,
click the vertical ellipsis and click
Resolve All Issues,
for example if an ESX agent is powered off.
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ESX Agent Manager sets the ESX
agency status to yellow until the ESX agency reaches its goal state. This can
either mean that the deployment of the ESX agents is still ongoing, or that ESX
Agent Manager is attempting to remediate issues. You define the remediation of
issues in the implementation of the solution, or you can leave the remediation
of issues to the vSphere administrator, who can resolve the issue by using the
ESX Agent Manager user interface.
The criteria on which ESX
Agent Manager determines that the status of an ESX agency is green depends on
the goal state of that ESX agency.
Criteria for Meeting
the Goal State of an ESX Agency
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Criteria for Green Status
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Enabled
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ESX Agent Manager has downloaded the ESX
agent binaries from the OVF and VIB URLs, deployed the ESX agent virtual
machines, installed the VIB, started the ESX agent virtual machines, and
received heartbeats from all of them.
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Disabled
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ESX Agent Manager has downloaded the ESX
agent binaries from the OVF and VIB URLs, deployed the ESX agent virtual
machines, and installed the VIB.
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Undeployed
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ESX Agent Manager has powered off and deleted
all the ESX agent virtual machines and uninstalled the VIB.
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If the ESX agency cannot reach
its goal state, ESX Agent Manager reports the issues to the solution and sets
the status to red.
Note
If the scope of an ESX
agency is empty, there are no compute resources onto which to deploy ESX
agents, so no ESX agents are deployed. In this case, ESX Agent Manager
determines that the ESX agency has performed correctly, and sets the status to
green.