Use this tab to proactively track changes on the Virtual
Machines (VMs) deployed on any of these sources—VMware ESXi server,
VMware vCenter server, Amazon Web Services Virtual Private Cloud
(AWS-VPC), or Google Compute Engine (GCE).
When monitoring ESXi hosts that are part of the VM-Series
NSX edition solution, use Dynamic Address Groups instead of using
VM Information Sources to learn about changes in the virtual environment.
For the VM-Series NSX edition solution, the NSX Manager provides
Panorama with information on the NSX security group to which an
IP address belongs. The information from the NSX Manager provides
the full context for defining the match criteria in a Dynamic Address
Group because it uses the service profile ID as a distinguishing
attribute and allows you to properly enforce policy when you have
overlapping IP addresses across different NSX security groups.
You
can register up to a maximum of 32 tags to an IP address.
There are two ways to monitor VM Information Sources:
The firewall can monitor your VMware ESXi server, VMware
vCenter server, GCE instances, or AWS-VPCs, and retrieve changes
as you provision or modify the guests configured on the monitored
sources. You can configure up to 10 sources (cumulative of all the
sources on all the virtual systems configured) on a firewall.
The
following conditions apply when your firewalls are configured in
a high availability (HA) configuration:
Active/passive
HA configuration—Only the active firewall monitors the VM information
sources.
Active/active HA configuration—Only the firewall with
the primary priority value monitors
the VM information sources.
For information on how
VM Information Sources and Dynamic Address Groups can work synchronously
and enable you to monitor changes in the virtual environment, refer
to the VM-Series Deployment Guide.
For IP address-to-username mapping, you can configure the
VM Information Sources on either the Windows User-ID agent or on
the firewall to monitor the VMware ESXi and vCenter server and retrieve
changes as you provision or modify the guests configured on the
server. The Windows User-ID agent supports up to 100 sources. Support
for AWS and Google Compute Engine is not available for the User-ID
agent.
Each VM on a monitored ESXi or vCenter server
must have VMware Tools installed and running. VMware Tools provide
the ability to IP address and other values assigned to each
VM.
To collect the values assigned to the monitored VMs, the firewall
monitors the attributes in the following tables.
Attributes Monitored
on a VMware Source
UUID
Name
Guest OS
Annotation
VM State — the power state can be poweredOff, poweredOn, standBy,
or unknown.
Version
Network—Virtual Switch Name, Port Group Name, and VLAN ID
Container Name—vCenter Name, Data Center Object Name, Resource
Pool Name, Cluster Name, Host, and Host IP address.
Attributes Monitored on the AWS-VPC
Architecture
Guest OS
Image ID
Instance ID
Instance State
Instance Type
Key Name
Placement—Tenancy, Group Name, and Availability Zone
Private DNS Name
Public DNS Name
Subnet ID
Tag (key, value); up to 18 tags supported per instance
VPC ID
Attributes Monitored for Google
Compute Engine (GCE)
Hostname of the VM
Machine type
Project ID
Source (OS type)
Status
Subnetwork
VPC Network
Zone
Add—Add a new source
for VM Monitoring and fill in the details based on the source you
are monitoring:
Refresh Connected—Refreshes the connection
status in the on-screen display; this does not refresh the connection
between the firewall and the monitored sources.
Delete—Deletes any configured VM Information
source that you select.
PDF/CSV—Exports the VM Information source
configuration table as a PDF or comma-separated values (CSV) file.
See Configuration
Table Export.
