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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Getting Started Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Getting Started Guide
- Introducing vCenter Operations Manager Features and Concepts
- Designing Your Workspace
- Using and Configuring Widgets
- Edit a Widget Configuration
- Configure Widget Interactions
- Advanced Health Tree Widget
- Alerts Widget
- Application Detail Widget
- Application Overview Widget
- Configuration Overview Widget
- Data Distribution Analysis Widget
- Generic Scoreboard Widget
- GEO Widget
- Health Status Widget
- Health Tree Widget
- Health-Workload Scoreboard Widget
- Heat Map Widget
- Mashup Charts Widget
- Metric Graph Widget
- Metric Graph (Rolling View) Widget
- Metric Selector Widget
- Metric Sparklines Widget
- Metric Weather Map Widget
- Resources Widget
- Root Cause Ranking Widget
- Tag Selector Widget
- Top-N Analysis Widget
- VC Relationship Widget
- VC Relationship (Planning) Widget
- Introducing Common Tasks
- Logging in and Using vCenter Operations Manager
- Monitoring Day-to-Day Operations
- Handling Alerts
- Optimizing Your Resources
- Index
Procedure
1 Configure the appearance of the widget display.
Option Action
Period Length
How far in the past the widget looks at data.
Bars Count
By default, the widget shows the top five items in the category you select.
You can change the count to 10 or 15, or select User Defined and type a
number in the text box.
Depth
Select a value from 1 to 10.
Application Health and Performance
The application health and performance categories for which the widget can
show information. Tag mode and Metric mode have different lists. This list
appears only in Tag mode.
Problem and Alert Analysis
The problem and alert analysis categories for which the widget can show
information. Tag mode and Metric mode have different lists. This list appears
only in Tag mode.
Metric Analysis
The metric analysis categories for which the widget can show information.
Tag mode and Metric mode have different lists. This list appears only in
Metric mode.
2 Select a Widget Mode option.
Option Description
Tag
Shows items that are related to resources.
Metric
Shows items that are related to specific metrics. Because Metric mode
requires you to select a specific metric, it does not provide results if the Top-
N Analysis widget accepts resources from the Application Overview or Tag
Selector widget.
3 If you selected Tag mode, select a resource tag in the Select which tag to show list.
Only tags that are relevant to top-n analysis appear in the resource tag list.
4 If you selected Metric mode, select one or more tag values in the Select which tag to show pane to filter
the resource kinds in the Resource Kinds pane.
You can use icons on the toolbar at the top of the list to collapse, expand, and deselect all of the tags in the
list.
When you select more than one value for the same tag, the list includes resource kinds that have either
value. When you select values for two or more tags, the list includes only resource kinds that have all of
the values that you select.
5 Select a resource kind in the Resource Kinds pane.
The metrics for the resource kind appear in the Metrics pane.
6 (Optional) Type all or part of the resource kind name in the Search text box and click the right angle bracket
(>) to search for a specific resource kind.
The metrics for the resource kind appear in the Metrics pane.
7 In the Metrics pane, select the metric to show in the widget.
You can click the Show Common Metrics icon at the top of the list to show only metrics that are shared
by all resources of the selected resource kind.
8 Click OK to save the widget configuration.
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