You can monitor the status of the sample ESX agent in ESX Agent Manager. The EAM Sample Solution provides basic management actions that you can perform in the EAM Sample Solution view in Solutions Manager.

With the EAM Sample Solution, you can temporarily disable, enable, and uninstall the solution. You can also monitor status and logging information about the ESX agent and resolve issues in ESX Agent Manager.

Prerequisites

Verify that you used the EAM Sample Solution to deploy an ESX agent.

Procedure
1

Click Home in the navigation bar of the vSphere web client, and then click the vCenter Solutions Manager icon.

2

Use the vSphere ESX Agent Manager and EAM Sample Solution to view and manage the ESX agents that you deployed, as described in the following table.

Option

Action

See events that ESX Agent Manager has logged in the vCenter database

Select Administration > vCenter Server Extensions > vSphere ESX Agent Manager > Summary. The logged events appear in the vCenter Database Storage panel.

See the list of virtual machines that ESX Agent Manager manages

Select Administration > vCenter Server Extensions > vSphere ESX Agent Manager > Virtual Machines and check the Manage tab.

View information about the running ESX agencies

Select Administration > vCenter Server Extensions > vSphere ESX Agent Manager > Manage tab.

The Sample Service appears in the list of running ESX agencies, with information that ESX Agent Manager has logged about the agency in the vCenter database. Use the Actions pull-down menu to make changes.

View the Sample Service (1) ESX agent virtual machine that the EAM Sample Solution has deployed

Select Administration > vCenter Server Extensions >EAM Sample Solution > Virtual Machines.

View information about the agency that ESX Agent Manager has logged in the vCenter database.

Select Administration > vCenter Server Extensions >EAM Sample Solution > Manage. Click the ESX Agencies button.

Temporarily disable the ESX agent and power off the virtual machine

Select Administration > vCenter Server Extensions >EAM Sample Solution > Solution and click Temporarily Disable in the Solution Actions panel.

Reenable the ESX agent and power the virtual machine back on.

Select Administration > vCenter Server Extensions >EAM Sample Solution > Solution and click Enable in the Solution Actions panel.
3

From the vSphere ESX Agent Managerwindow, choose Virtual Machines from the left navigation menu. Power off an ESX agent virtual machine, and click OK to ignore the warning about powering off a machine that ESX Agent Manager manages.

4

Select the Manage tab.

The status of the ESX agency that the EAM Sample Solution deployed has changed to red.

5

Select the agency with the red status, and then choose Resolve All Issues from the Actions pull-down menu.

ESX Agent Manager powers on the ESX agent virtual machine. The status of the ESX agency turns yellow while the ESX agent powers on, then turns green when it is running.

6

From the vSphere ESX Agent Manager window, choose Virtual Machines from the left navigation menu. Power off an ESX agent virtual machine, delete it from the disk, and click OK to ignore the warning about powering off a machine that ESX Agent Manager manages.

7

Select vSphere ESX Agent Manager > Manage.

The status of the ESX agency that the EAM Sample Solution deployed has changed to red.

8

Select the agency with the red status, and then choose Resolve All Issues from the Actions pull-down menu.

ESX Agent Manager deploys a clone of the ESX agent that you deleted. The status of the ESX agency turns yellow while the ESX agent powers on, then turns green when it is running.

9

Unregister the running ESX agency and delete its ESX agent virtual machines.

Option

Action

Uninstall the ESX agency using the EAM Sample Solution

In the vCenter Solutions Manager window, select EAM Sample Solution > Solution and click Uninstall in the Solution Actions panel.

Delete the ESX agency using ESX Agent Manager

In the vCenter Solutions Manager window, , select vSphere ESX Agent Manager > Manage select the Sample Service, and choose Delete Agency from the Actions pull-down menu.

The Recent Tasks view shows the progress as the EAM Sample Solution or ESX Agent Manager uninstalls the ESX agent, powers off the virtual machine, and deletes the virtual machine and resource pool from the vCenter inventory.

What to do next

Use the EAM Sample Solution to deploy an ESX agent virtual machine and a vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB) and integrate them with DvFilter.

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