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Table Of Contents
- Installation and Configuration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Before Installing vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise
- System Requirements
- Installation and Configuration Checklist
- vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Database Configuration
- Installing vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise
- Managing Program Groups
- Installing a vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Collector
- Installing a vCenter Operations Manager Adapter
- Installing the Analytics Processor
- Index
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ThischapterdescribeshowtoinstallandconfigurethevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseanalytics
processor.Itcontainsthefollowingsections:
“InstallingtheProcessor”onpage 33
“ValidatingthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseInstallation”onpage 34
ThevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserverinstallationincludesaprocesswhichperformsallofthe
variousvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseanalyticscalculations:dynamicthresholds,fingerprinting,
andsoon.vCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisealsogiv e syoutheoptionofinstallingaseparateanalytics
processorononeormoreremotehoststohandleonlythedynamicthresholdcomputation;thisiscalledthe
DTProcessor.Thishastwobenefits:
Itdistributestheanalyticsprocessingamongtwoormorehoststoimproveperformanceandreducethe
demandontheserver.
Whenyouhaveaseparateprocessjustforthedynamicthresholdcalculations,aproblemwithdynamic
thresholdsdoesnotstoptheentireanalyticsprocess.
Installing the Processor
YoucaninstalltheDTProcessorononeormoreremotehosts.ItissupportedonbothWindowsandLinux
hosts;theinstallationprocessisthesameoneither.
Procedure
1PerformthefirstsixstepsofthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserverinstallation.
2OntheChooseInstallSetpage,selectAnalyticsProcessor
andclickNext.
3OntheChooseInstallFolderpage,acceptthedefaultorclickChooseandbrowsetothefolderwhereyou
wanttoinstalltheprocessor.ClickNext.
4ThePre‐installationSummarypageliststhecomponentsthatwillbeinstalled.ClickInstalltobeginthe
installation.
5OntheDT
ProcessorConfigurationpage,typethehostnameorIPaddressofthevCenterOperations
ManagerEnterpriseserverhostinthevCenterOperationsServerfield,thentypetheportnumberfor
RMIaccesstotheanalyticsserviceinthePortfield;thedefaultis1199.ClickSave.
6OntheInstallCompletepage,
clickDone.
7OnthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserverhost,editthefollowingfile
vcenter-ops
\user\conf\analytics\advanced.properties.
8FindthepropertydistributedDTCalculationEnabledandsetittotrue.
9 Saveyourchangeandclosethefile.
10 RestarttheAnalyticsserviceonthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserverhost.
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