Skyline Advisor
Proactive Intelligence for your VMware environment
Skyline Advisor brings Proactive Intelligence to your VMware Environment. This issues lurking in your environment and provide solutions before they become user-impacting problems.
Skyline Advisor can also make your life easier by automating the log bundle upload process when you work with VMware Global Support. In the past you may have had to wait while the log bundle was generated and downloaded – only to watch the progress bar as you uploaded the large file to support. With Skyline Advisor, this process takes only a few mouse clicks and you can get back to your day immediately.
Skyline Advisor can also help your support engineer work on your problem by allowing them to request new log bundles – when you enable Auto Approve Log Requests.
Benefits of using Skyline Advisor
Skyline Overview
Skyline Advisor Demo
Getting Started with Skyline Advisor
Setting up Skyline Advisor is pretty easy and takes only a few minutes. You will:
- Create a VMware Cloud Services Account
- Generate a secure token which will associate the collector with your Cloud Services account
- Download and install the Skyline Collector
- Apply the security token and configure the endpoints in your environment (vCenter, Horizon, etc)
- Enjoy the benefits of Skyline Advisor!
The following links provide a deeper walk through of the process
Useful Links
- The Skyline Collector uses accounts to connect to the various endpoints in your VMware environment. You can create service accounts for each endpoint using the minimum required permissions for Skyline Advisor to work properly.
- If you need to remove or replace a Skyline Collector KB 74677 outlines the process to de-register an existing collector and add a new one.