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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Administration Guide
- Configuring and Managing vCenter Operations Manager
- Configuring Adapters
- Configuring Resources
- Configuring Attribute Packages
- Configuring Applications
- Configuring and Managing Users
- Configuring Alert Notifications
- Performing Basic System Administration Tasks
- View Performance Information
- View Status Information
- vCenter Operations Manager Service Names
- Start or StopvCenter Operations Manager Services
- Viewing and Managing System Log Files
- Delete Old Data in the File System Database
- Run the Audit Report
- Modify Global Settings
- Modify Global Settings for Virtual Environments
- Create a Support Bundle
- Resolving Administrative System Alerts
- Analytics FSDB Overloaded
- Analytics Threshold Checking Overloaded
- Collector Is Down
- Controller Is Unable to Connect to MQ
- DataQueue Is Filling Up
- Describe Failed
- Failed to Connect to Replication MQ
- Failed to Repair Corrupted FSDB Files
- File Queue Is Full
- FSDB Files Corrupted for Resources
- FSDB Storage Drive Free Space Is Less Than 10%
- No DT Processors Connected
- One or More Resources Were Not Started
- Outbound Alert Send Failed
- Replication MQ Sender Is Blocked
- Backing Up and Recovering Data
- Using System Tools
- Summary of System Tools
- Check the FSDB and Repair Problems
- Move the FSDB
- View Resources in the FSDB
- Remove System-Generated Metrics from the FSDB
- Monitor vCenter Operations Manager Services in JConsole
- Verify Server to Collector Communication
- Configuring and Running the Repository Adapter
- conf.properties File
- Configure Database Connections for the Repository Adapter
- Set the Repository Adapter Schedule
- Configure the Source and Destination Columns for the Repository Adapter
- Set Operation Options for the Repository Adapter
- Configure Data Export Values for the Repository Adapter
- Start the Repository Adapter
- Configuring and Running runvcopsServerConfiguration
- Managing Dashboards and Dashboard Templates
- Using the FSDB JDBC Driver
- Index
Collectors Info
Shows the status of the synchronize process that vCenter Operations Manager runs for each collector. The
synchronize process sends any updated configuration information from the controller to each adapter. The
describe process sends information about the data that can be collected from each adapter to the
vCenter Operations Manager server.
Adapter Info
Shows the status of the describe process, the adapter version, and any messages from the adapter for each
installed adapter. The adapter version consists of major and minor versions and the build number.
NOTE The describe.xml file contains an additional adapter version number. This version number changes
only if you must rerun the describe process because of an adapter change, for example, when the metrics that
the adapter collects change, or when the format of the adapter's credentials change.
The synchronize and describe processes usually run only when the vCenter Operations Manager server process
starts. If you make changes and want to run these processes without restarting vCenter Operations Manager,
click the Describe icon in the Adapter Info pane.
Replication Info
If you are using a replication server to back up the primary vCenter Operations Manager server, this pane
indicates whether synchronization is on, when it started, and the percentage completed.
DT Calculation Info
Shows statistics for dynamic threshold calculations. You can click the Generate Dynamic Thresholds icon in
this pane to manually generate dynamic thresholds on all collected metrics.
The regular schedule for calculating dynamic thresholds is set by the updateTime property in the
analytics.properties file. When updateTime is set to a positive number, vCenter Operations Manager
calculates thresholds once a day, starting at the hour specified, in military time. For example, updateTime=23
starts threshold calculation at 11:00 p.m. When updateTime is set to a negative number,
vCenter Operations Manager calculates dynamic thresholds every x hours. For example, updateTime=-6 starts
threshold calculation every six hours.
Slowest DT Objects
The five resources for which vCenter Operations Manager spent the most time calculating dynamic thresholds
appear on this pane. This information might help VMware technical support diagnose certain types of
problems.
vCenter Operations Manager Service Names
The services and service names are different for vCenter Operations Manager Standalone and the
vCenter Operations Manager vApp.
vCenter Operations Manager Standalone
For vCenter Operations Manager Standalone, the services are the same on Windows and Linux servers but the
service names are different.
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