About Control Hosts in Veritas Operations Manager

Veritas Operations Manager uses Control Hosts as a discovery mechanism. In Veritas Operations Manager, the Control Hosts discovers the following:

Storage Insight Add-on supports the following enclosures:

On the vendor enclosures that Storage Insight Add-on supports, the Control Hosts discover the following additional information on the enclosures:

To discover the deep array information on the enclosures using Storage Insight Add-on, you can configure the Control Host on any managed host. Ideally, you must configure two managed hosts as Control Hosts. You can designate the first managed host as Primary Control Host and the second managed host as Secondary Control Host. The Secondary Control Host acts as a backup if the Primary Control Host goes down.

To configure a managed host as a Control Host for discovering the deep array information on the enclosures from any of the vendors that Storage Insight Add-on supports, you must install the binaries provided by the vendor on the managed host. For example, to configure the Control Hosts for discovering the deep array information on the EMC CLARiiON enclosure, you must install the NaviSphere CLI binaries with version 6.29 or later on the managed hosts that you want to designate as the Primary and the Secondary Control Hosts.

In Veritas Operations Manager, you can configure Veritas Operations Manager Management Server or a managed host that reports to Management Server as Control Host for discovering the information on the VMware virtualization infrastructure. For this configuration, you must install the Control Host Add-on on the hosts that you want to designate as Control Host. In Veritas Operations Manager, you must download the Control Host Add-on from the Symantec Web site, upload to the Deployment Management Repository, and install it on the relevant hosts.

In your datacenter , Control Hosts help Management Server in discovering the following information on VMware virtualization infrastructure:

In Veritas Operations Manager, you can install the Control Host Add-on on the managed hosts with the following platforms:

For information on managing an Add-on in Veritas Operations Manager, see Veritas Operations Manager Administrator's Guide

Ensure that the Control Hosts can ping the VirtualCenter servers or the ESX servers from which they can discover the information on VMware Infrastructure.

The Control Host discovers the VMware Infrastructure from the hosts other than Management Server. After the discovery of VMware Infrastructure, the Control Host reports the discovered data to Management Server. Management Server coalesces the data that it receives from the Control Host and populates the relevant views.

You can designate a managed host that reports to Management Server as Control Host to address the following situations:

More Information

About discovering the VMware Infrastructure using Veritas Operations Manager

How Veritas Operations Manager discovers VirtualCenter and ESX servers

Information that Veritas Operations Manager discovers on the VMware Infrastructure components

Configuring the VMware discovery in Veritas Operations Manager