Using NSX Endpoint Monitoring

In this recipe, we will configure NSX endpoint monitoring for our selected and supported virtual machines.

Getting ready

You will need to have the following access and configurations present before proceeding with this recipe:

• Access to the vSphere Web Client.
• NSX administrator or enterprise administrator access.
• Flow Monitoring should be enabled - see the previous recipe on how to enable Flow Monitoring in NSX.
• The NSX enterprise license must be applied.
• The guest VM should be using one of the supported guest operating systems—Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 2012, or Windows 2016.

Endpoint monitoring currently does not support Linux OS.

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