Hello Craig,  The options are :   1. Move the Staging cluster into its own DataCenter and do not grant access to the userID to this datacenter     2.Update FoglightAgent.winservice.exe.config file located in VMware agent directory. The file has an entry called SkippedEntityList=”” Add the Object IDs of ESX hosts and VMs that need to be excluded inside the double quotes with each entry separated by a semi-colon. Please note this will still collect the inventory of those ESX hosts and VMs meaning they will be visible in vmExplorer dashboard but no other metrics will be collected   3.VMware agent that will come out with vFog 6.6 is completely redesigned (it is FglAM based) and will most likely have an easier way to exclude hosts/vms   Regards   Prasad Gadgil
I have 2 Clusters in my ESX environment(Production and Staging) but only want to monitor and alert on my Production servers and datastores.  vFoglight sees all the hosts and CPUs and we've only purchased licenses for the Production hosts and I keep getting alarms from my Staging environment which I don't want.  Is there any way to "exclude" these servers and datastores so they don't tie up my liceneses?  Thanks for any help, Craig
Exclude Hosts from using Licenses