Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 3.1 User Guide

Choose Definitions > Targets, right-click and choose New > VMware vSphere Hypervisor, then enter 
the required information.

Click the General tab and enter the appropriate information.

Click the Connection tab and enter the appropriate information, including:

ESX server name—Fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) or IP address of the ESX/ESXi server

The Power Up Host and Power Down Host activities can only be performed against the ESX/ESXi 
Server.

ESX service port—Port number used to access the ESX/ESXi server (Default: 443)

Click OK to close the dialog box and complete the procedure.

vCenter Server provides unified management of all the hosts and VMs in your datacenter from a single 
console with an aggregate performance monitoring of clusters, hosts and VMs.

Use the VMware vCenter Server target to specify the connection information to the VMware server.

Choose Definitions > Targets, then right-click and choose New > VMware vCenter Server.

Click the General tab and enter the appropriate information.

Click the Connection tab and enter the appropriate information, including:

vCenter server name—Fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) or IP address of the virtual server

vCenter service port—Port number used to access the virtual server (Default: 443)

Click OK to close the dialog box and complete the procedure.

The following table provides a list of the triggers that are associated with the VMware vSphere Adapter. 
The triggers that are available depend on what adapters are installed.

VMware Host Performance 
Event

Monitors the performance for a ESX host

See 

VMware Virtual Machine 
Performance Event

Monitors the performance for a ESX virtual machine

See 

VMware Virtual Machine 
Power Event

Monitors the power state changes of a virtual machine

See