Using NSX Endpoint Monitoring
In this recipe, we will configure NSX endpoint monitoring for our selected and supported virtual machines.
Getting ready
You will need to have the following access and configurations present before proceeding with this recipe:
- Access to the vSphere Web Client.
- NSX administrator or enterprise administrator access.
- Flow Monitoring should be enabled - see the previous recipe on how to enable Flow Monitoring in NSX.
- The NSX enterprise license must be applied.
- The guest VM should be using one of the supported guest operating systems—Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 2012, or Windows 2016.
Note
Endpoint monitoring currently does not support Linux OS.
- VMware tools must be installed in the guest VM.
- A guest introspection service VM must be deployed in the cluster where the guest VM resides.
- A security group must be created as the endpoint monitoring will monitor a particular security group.
- A guest VM must be added to the security group that will...
