Accessing The Online Help; Vshield Manager User Interface; Vshield Manager Inventory Panel; Refreshing The Inventory Panel - VMware VSHIELD APP 1.0 Admin Manual

vShield Administration Guide

Accessing the Online Help

The Online Help can be accessed by clicking

vShield Manager User Interface

The vShield Manager user interface is divided into two panels: the inventory panel and the configuration
panel. You select a view and a resource from the inventory panel to open the available details and
configuration options in the configuration panel.
When clicked, each inventory object has a specific set of tabs that appear in the configuration panel.

vShield Manager Inventory Panel

The vShield Manager inventory panel hierarchy mimics the vSphere Client inventory hierarchy. Resources
include the root folder, datacenters, clusters, port groups, ESX hosts, and virtual machines, including your
installed vShield App and vShield Edge modules. As a result, the vShield Manager maintains solidarity with
your vCenter Server inventory to present a complete view of your virtual deployment. The vShield Manager
is the only virtual machine that does not appear in the vShield Manager inventory panel. vShield Manager
settings are configured from the Settings & Reports resource atop the inventory panel.
The inventory panel offers multiple views: Hosts & Clusters, Networks, and Secured Port Groups. The Hosts
& Clusters view displays the datacenters, clusters, resource pools, and ESX hosts in your inventory. The
Networks view displays the VLAN networks and port groups in your inventory. The Secured Port Groups
view displays the port groups protected by vShield Edge instances. The Hosts & Clusters and Networks views
are consistent with the same views in the vSphere Client.
There are differences in the icons for virtual machines and vShield components between the vShield Manager
and the vSphere Client inventory panels. Custom icons are used to show the difference between vShield
components and virtual machines, and the difference between protected and unprotected virtual machines.
Table 2-1. vShield Virtual Machine Icons in the vShield Manager Inventory Panel
Icon Description
A powered on vShield App in active protection state.
A powered off vShield App.
A powered on virtual machine that is protected by a vShield App.
A powered on virtual machine that is not protected by a vShield App.

Refreshing the Inventory Panel

To refresh the list of resources in the inventory panel, click
information from the vCenter Server. By default, the vShield Manager requests resource information from the
vCenter Server every five minutes.

Searching the Inventory Panel

To search the inventory panel for a specific resource, type a string in the field atop the vShield Manager
inventory panel and click
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in the upper right of the vShield Manager user interface.
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. The refresh action requests the latest resource
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