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VMware® Lab Manager User's Guide
Monitoring Lab Manager
You can monitor these areas:
Activity Log – View information about asynchronous actions. This feature is
available to all users.
Server Pool – View a graphical display of the Managed Server systems and current
usage. From this page, you can perform configuration operations and access
virtual machine consoles.
Deployed Machines – View information about all deployed virtual machines.
Monitoring the Activity Log
All users can view the activity log to monitor time‐consuming (asynchronous) tasks or
jobs which do not require immediate completion.
Examples of asynchronous operations include deploying a configuration, undeploying
a configuration, cloning a configuration, and setting a revert point for a configuration.
To monitor activities
In the left pane, click Activity Log.
Review these elements of the log:
The Status column indicates the success, failure, or in progress status of a job. A
failed job includes a short description in the Details column.
The job types include Configuration, Machine, Storage Server, and Managed
Server.
Details and debugging information are available through the link in the Operation
column.
Monitoring the Server Pool
Administrators can view a graphical display of the Managed Server pool and its usage.
To monitor the server pool
In the left pane, click Server Pool.
Review these elements of the Managed Server pool:
The number of Managed Server licenses as indicated by the number of Managed
Server systems that appear on the page.
The number of Managed Server systems in use.
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