About the Symantec High Availability Console


About the Symantec High Availability Console
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You must install the Symantec High Availability Console, if you plan to configure application monitoring in a VMware virtual environment and are using the vSphere desktop client for performing the application monitoring operations.

For information about using the vSphere Web Client, see:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH222796

Note:

You can configure application monitoring on the Windows as well as Linux systems. However, you can install the Console on a system that runs Windows operating system only.

See Supported operating systems.

The Symantec High Availability Console enables integration with vSphere Client and configures access control for vCenter Server users to perform the following tasks:

Install the Symantec High Availability and ApplicationHA guest components
Manage the Symantec High Availability and ApplicationHA licenses
Configure application monitoring
In case of ApplicationHA, configure cross-site single sign-on for site recovery and register the virtual machines for auto recovery

As part of the Symantec High Availability Console installation, the installer registers the Symantec High Availability plugin for VMware vCenter Server. This plugin is required to view the Symantec High Availability tab, the Symantec High Availability dashboard and the Symantec High Availability home page, using the vSphere Client.

Use the Symantec High Availability tab to configure and control application monitoring on an individual virtual machine.

Use the Symantec High Availability Dashboard to administer application monitoring at a VMware datacenter/cluster level.

Use the Symantec High Availability home page to install guest components, manage licenses and to configure cross-site single sign-on for site recovery (only in case of ApplicationHA).