STEP 5: View the WhatsVirtual reports

Dashboard reports

The following reports have been added to WhatsUp Gold to provide information about your virtual environment.

• Virtual Server. This home and device level dashboard report provides a list of all the virtual machines managed by a virtual server. The virtual server may be a vCenter server or VMware host.
• Virtual Server List. This device level dashboard report provides system attributes for the virtual server, hardware information for VMware hosts, and a list of the virtual devices managed by the virtual server. The virtual server may be a vCenter server or a VMware host.

  Note: Hardware information will be displayed only if the selected device is a VMware host for which credentials were supplied and selected during a VMware scan.

• WhatsVirtual Events. This home level dashboard report displays events that WhatsVirtual is configured to collect from the vCenter server. The events appear in reverse chronological order, so that the last event received appears at the top of the list.
• Virtual Machine Instant CPU Utilization. This home and device level dashboard report provides the current CPU utilization for the selected virtual machine.
• Virtual Machine Instant Disk Utilization. This home and device level dashboard report provides the current Disk utilization for the selected virtual machine.
• Virtual Machine Instant Memory Utilization. This home and device level dashboard report provides the current Memory utilization for the selected virtual machine.
• Virtual Machine Instant Interface Utilization. This home and device level dashboard report provides the current Interface utilization for the selected virtual machine.

Configuring VMware dashboard reports

Before you can configure a dashboard report, it must be added to your dashboard view. For information on adding dashboard reports to a dashboard view, see Adding dashboard reports to a dashboard view in the dialog help.

Configure VMware dashboard reports on the Configure Report dialog (Menu > Configure Report).

Click the Browse (...) button to select the device you want to use as a data source for the report.

Full reports

WhatsVirtual Events. This report displays events that WhatsVirtual is configured to collect from the vCenter server. The events appear in reverse chronological order, so that the last event received appears at the top of the list.

You can access the WhatsVirtual Events report from the WhatsUp Gold web interface from the Reports Tab. (System > WhatsVirtual Events)

See Also Using WhatsVirtual STEP 1: Purchase and enable the WhatsVirtual license STEP 2: Create Credentials and Perform Discovery STEP 3: Manage and monitor virtual devices STEP 4: View the WhatsVirtual maps