vCenter - VMware vCenter Server

Overview

VMware vCenter manages the virtual infrastructure and VM inventory that hosts UC and supporting services.

Monitoring

Method

vcenter-exporter API collection through infra-prometheus.

Metrics Collected

• vCenter, host, cluster, and VM health
• Datastore capacity and status
• Resource utilization and alarms
• Exporter and scrape health

Grafana Dashboards

• WxCDI vCenter Detail — expected by the audit; no verified dashboard link is recorded.

Logging

Log Source

The audit lists infrastructure event/trap expectations, but the final event mapping is incomplete.

Splunk Index

infra_events is the documented infrastructure-event index; verify source routing before use.

Key Log Queries

index=infra_events device_type="vcenter" device_name="<device_name>"

Alerting

Grafana Alert Rules

Alert Name	Severity	Description
vCenter health	Varies	Virtualization and capacity conditions.
Scrape-down coverage	Gap	The audit currently records this control as disabled.

Splunk Alerts

Alert Name	Severity	Description
vCenter events	Varies	Virtual infrastructure events from infra_events; verify source metadata.

Notification Flow

vCenter → Grafana/Splunk → EMS (KeepHQ) → [notification channels]

Inventory

• Repository: vcenter-inventory
• Update Method: Manual inventory maintenance. The exporter target config may also require a wxcdi-kubed-configs change.
• Update Cadence: When vCenter inventory changes.