VM-Series
Deployment
Guide
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About the VM-Series Firewall
Monitor Changes in the Virtual Environment
Attributes Monitored on a VMware Source
When the firewall is configured to monitor VM Information Sources, the following metadata elements or
attributes are monitored on each VMware source:
UUID
Name
Guest OS
VM State — the power state can be poweredOff, poweredOn, standBy, and unknown.
Annotation
Version
Network —Virtual Switch Name, Port Group Name, and VLAN ID
Container Name —vCenter Name, Data Center Object Name, Resource Pool Name, Cluster Name, Host,
Host IP address.