About the SDK Contents

The Guest and HA Application Monitoring SDK is available as a tarball for Linux or a ZIP file for Windows. Both have a similar directory structure, shown in Components of the SDK, with minor differences for compilation.

Components of the SDK

Directory or Folder	Explanation of Contents
bin/bin32 or bin/win32 bin/bin64 or bin/win64	Contains the vmware-appmonitor program, which controls the HA application monitoring heartbeat from the command line.
docs/	Contains the Guest SDK terms and conditions, and text of related Open Source licenses. Also contains sample code for HA application monitoring.
docs/VMGuestAppMonitor/   samples/C or   samples/visualstudio   samples/java	The samples/C subdirectory (or samples/visualstudio subfolder) contains the sample.c (or appmon.cpp) program to demonstrate HA application monitoring API. Follow instructions in the README file to compile with make or with Visual Studio. The samples/java directory contains a Java native interface (JNI) implementation that builds on the C implementation. Again, see the README file.
include/	Header files for basic types, GuestAppMonitor and Guest libraries, and session ID.
include/vmGuestLibTest.c	Sample C program to run all the Guest library functions and return statistics. On Linux, use gcc to compile this program, and run it on an ESXi hosted virtual machine.
lib/lib32 or lib/win32 lib/lib64 or lib/win64	Shared objects or DLL files and libraries for the Guest library, the Guest library for Java, and the HA application monitoring library.
vmGuestLibJava vmGuestLibJava/doc	JAR file and standard Javadoc for a prepackaged Java implementation of the Guest API. For a list of methods, browse index.html and see the VMGuestLibInterface page.