Why upgrade

Upgrade to Splunk for VMware 2.0

• Splunk App for VMware now specifically targets the proactive monitoring and troubleshooting of your environment. You can identify issues quickly and easily and drill down to those issues.
  • Use the Selector to navigate your environment. Filter and expand your environment down to the most detailed level.
  • Use the tree view to see your overall environment status and to navigate quickly to issues. With the new bubble up status, you can see the status of your environment at a glance as the status at a lower level in your environment is indicated at the top most level so that you can triage quickly and easily.
  • Use the search capability in the drop-downs to make faster selections. You can make a selection from the list displayed or you can enter text into the menu to get a more direct response.
• You can reduce your data volume by using the latest data collector App in the FA VM and running the latest enginebuilder.py tool on it to regenerate your configuration files.
• We have default thresholds set for the VMware metrics collected by the App.
  • You can configure the thresholds in the App to work for your specific environment or you can manually edit the sa_threshold.conf file.
• You can see the health of your environment now by looking at one dashboard, the App Install health Screen.
• We have integrated some of the older dashboards into the App.
• We have removed the App dependency on Sideview Utils.
• We have improved the upgrade process.
• Automatically Install the App using the configuration tools. No more manual installation.
• Scaling is easier using the tools.