Connectors of the vmware type are used for getting VMware vCenter data via the API. Settings for a connector of the vmware type are described in the following tables.
Basic settings tab
Setting
Description
Name
Unique name of the resource. The maximum length of the name is 128 Unicode characters.
Required setting.
Tenant
The name of the tenant that owns the resource.
Required setting.
Type
Connector type: vmware.
Required setting.
Tags
Tags for resource search.
Optional setting.
URL
URL of the VMware API. You need to include the hostname and port number in the URL. You can only specify one URL.
Required setting.
VMware credentials
Secret that stores the user name and password for connecting to the VMware API. You can select an existing secret or create a new secret. To create a new secret, select Create new.
If you want to edit the settings of an existing secret, click the pencil icon next to it.
In the User and Password fields, enter the credentials of the user account that the Agent will use to connect to the connector.
If necessary, enter a description of the secret in the Description field.
Click the Create button.
The secret is added and displayed in the Secret drop-down list.
Required setting.
Client timeout
Time to wait after a request that did not return events before making a new request. The default value is 5 seconds. If you specify 0 , the default value is used.
Maximum number of events
Number of events requested from the VMware API in one request. The default value is 100. The maximum value is 1000.
Start timestamp
Starting date and time from which you want to read events from the VMware API. By default, events are read from the VMware API from the time when the collector was started. If started after the collector is stopped, the events are read from the last saved date.
Description
Description of the resource. The maximum length of the description is 4000 Unicode characters.
TLS encryption mode. When using TLS encryption, you cannot specify an IP address in the URL field on the Basic settings. Available values:
Disabled means TLS encryption is not used. This value is selected by default.
Enabled means TLS encryption is used, but certificates are not verified.
Custom CA means TLS encryption is used with verification that the certificate was signed by a Certificate Authority. If you select this value, in the Custom CA drop-down list, specify a secret with a certificate signed by a certification authority. You can select an existing secret or create a new secret. To create a new secret, select Create new.
If you want to edit the settings of an existing secret, click the pencil icon next to it.
You can create a CA-signed certificate on the KUMA Core server (the following command examples use OpenSSL).
To create a certificate signed by a Certificate Authority:
Generate a key to be used by the Certificate Authority, for example:
openssl genrsa -out ca.key 2048
Create a certificate for the generated key, for example:
openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca.key -subj "/CN=<common host name of Certificate Authority>" -out ca.crt
Create a private key and a request to have it signed by the Certificate Authority, for example:
openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout server.key -subj "/CN=<common host name of KUMA server>" -out server.csr
Create the certificate signed by the Certificate Authority. You need to include the domain names or IP addresses of the server for which you are creating the certificate in the subjectAltName variable, for example:
Upload the created server.crt certificate in the KUMA web interface to a secret of the certificate type, then in the Custom CA drop-down list, select the secret of the certificate type.
To use KUMA certificates on third-party devices, you must change the certificate file extension from CERT to CRT. Otherwise, you can get the x509: certificate signed by unknown authority error.
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