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Excluding ESX hosts from VMAN monitoring to decrease used sockets

This article describes how to decrease the amount of sockets by excluding ESX hosts from monitoring. This can be used when you have exceeded the socket count for license entitlement in VMAN.

First published date

10/9/2018 7:19 PM

Last published date

9/12/2022 12:06 PM

Overview

This article describes a workaround to decrease the number of sockets used by excluding Hosts from monitoring.
This can be used when you have exceeded the socket count for your license entitlement in VMAN.

Product section

Virtualization Manager

Resolution

  1. Open the vSphere Client.
  2. Expand the Host & Clusters until you locate the host you want to exclude.
  3. Right-click the host, and then click Add Permission.
  4. Add the user that VMAN uses for data collection.
  5. Assign a No Access role - this will exclude the selected Host from monitoring and data collection.

Please note, that it takes the VMAN appliance 48 hours by default to phase out objects that we can no longer see via permissions.