vShield App Flow Monitoring is a traffic analysis tool that provides statistics and graphs of the traffic on the virtual network as it passes through a host running vShield App. The information collected and displayed by Flow Monitoring is detailed to the protocol level and is very useful in spotting unwanted traffic flows.
In order to proceed, we require access to vShield App through the vSphere Client plugin. The plugin can be enabled through the Plug-ins menu in the vSphere Client. This client can run on any modern Windows desktop operating system or server operating system.
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The vShield vSphere Client plugin requires Adobe Flash, which is not supported on Linux operating systems at this time.
Ensure the vCenter account used for login has administrative rights to vShield Manager.