Setup for IT Service Vision Server

Section 1, Task 2: Start Your Data Collection software Prerequisite 1: Verify that the logging and collector software is installed appropriately. Step b: Collector host.

Preferably, do not use your workstation as the collector host.
Typically, the collector host is a different machine from your workstation for performance reasons.
If the collector host is a different machine from your workstation, check that:
The collector host is network-accessible to your workstation.