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Contents
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Getting Started Guide 5
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Introducing vCenter Operations Manager Features and Concepts 7
Viewing Resources in vCenter Operations Manager 7
Understanding How vCenter Operations Manager Collects Data 8
Understanding Alerts 8
Understanding Health Ratings 10
Monitoring Virtual Resources 11
Analyzing Performance and Capacity 13
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Designing Your Workspace 17
Working with Dashboards 17
Working with Widgets 22
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Using and Configuring Widgets 25
Edit a Widget Configuration 26
Configure Widget Interactions 26
Advanced Health Tree Widget 31
Alerts Widget 33
Application Detail Widget 35
Application Overview Widget 36
Configuration Overview Widget 37
Data Distribution Analysis Widget 38
Generic Scoreboard Widget 40
GEO Widget 43
Health Status Widget 44
Health Tree Widget 45
Health-Workload Scoreboard Widget 47
Heat Map Widget 48
Mashup Charts Widget 51
Metric Graph Widget 53
Metric Graph (Rolling View) Widget 56
Metric Selector Widget 59
Metric Sparklines Widget 60
Metric Weather Map Widget 62
Resources Widget 64
Root Cause Ranking Widget 65
Tag Selector Widget 67
Top-N Analysis Widget 68
VC Relationship Widget 70
VC Relationship (Planning) Widget 71
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