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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
Key Metrics Pane
This pane contains the metrics of greatest interest related to the performance characteristic that you select. In
the default Key Metrics view, vCenter Operations Manager selects the four most interesting metrics, through
bubbling, by following these criteria.
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From all metrics, vCenter Operations Manager selects KPIs that are violating their thresholds. It sorts KPIs
by display order (CPU, memory, network I/O, and disk I/O).
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From all remaining metrics, vCenter Operations Manager adds non-KPI metrics that are violating their
thresholds to the list by display order.
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vCenter Operations Manager adds other metrics to the list by display order.
Metric Details Pane
This pane occupies the middle of the Resource Detail page. The information that appears in this pane depends
on the metric that you select to view in the Status pane.
Table 4-2. Information in the Metric Details Pane
Metric Description
Health Shows information for workload, anomalies, and faults.
Workload Shows information for CPU and memory used by the currently selected resource, by the hypervisor,
and by the child objects of the selected resource. You can point to colored sections in the bars to
view information about the objects that they represent.
Anomalies Contains a list of symptoms for all child container objects of the currently selected resource. A
symptom is a metric that contributes to the health state of an objects. See “Understanding Health
Symptoms,” on page 79.
Faults Shows information for faults. A fault score indicates the degree of problems that the object is
experiencing. It includes events such as loss of redundancy in NICs or HBAs, memory checksum
errors, HA failover problems, and CIM events.
Related Objects Pane
This pane shows values for the currently selected performance characteristic of all objects that are related to
the selected resource. Depending on the resource type that you selected (virtual machine, datacenter, or
vCenter Server system), this pane shows parent objects, peer objects, and child objects.
Events and Health Pane
This pane appears in the lower third of the Resource Detail page when you click Health in the Status pane.
You can expand this pane to view the graph of the current health metric values. If an administrator configures
it, the graph contains events that might affect the selected resource. You can use the icons at the top of the pane
to change the display.
Events and Workload Pane
This pane appears in the lower third of the Resource Detail page when you click Workload in the Status pane.
You can expand this pane to view the graph of recent workload metric values. If an administrator configures
it, the graph shows events that might affect the selected resource. You can use the icons at the top of the pane
to change the display.
Events and Anomalies Pane
This pane appears in the lower third of the Resource Detail page when you click Anomalies in the Status pane.
You can expand this pane to view the graph of anomalies. If an administrator configures it, the graph shows
corresponding events that might affect the selected resource. You can use the icons at the top of the pane to
change the display.
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