VM Information Sources
—Enables you to monitor VMware
ESXi, vCenter Server, AWS-VPCs, and Google Compute Engines natively
on the firewall and to retrieve IP address changes when you provision or
modify virtual machines on these sources. For monitoring virtual
machines in your Microsoft Azure deployment, you can deploy the
VM Monitoring script that runs on a virtual
machine within the Azure public cloud. This script collects the
IP address-to-tag mapping for all your Azure assets and uses the
API to push the VM information to your Palo Alto Networks firewalls.
VM Information Sources option polls for a predefined set of attributes
and does not require external scripts to register the IP addresses
through the XML API. See
Monitor Changes in the Virtual Environment.