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Modify Global Settings
You can customize certain vCenter Operations Manager user interface behaviors by modifying global settings.
Global settings control the ranges for health color indicators, the interaction metrics count, and the number of
root cause groups. These settings affect all users.
Modify Health Ranges
One of the ways that vCenter Operations Manager indicates the health of a resource is to show a colored
indicator. The color is based on the range of the health score. You can change the range for all colors except for
blue.
You can also choose whether the health chart that appears on many vCenter Operations Manager windows is
colored according to the health score for each time period.
Table 8-3. Default Health Color Ranges
Color Range
Green 76 to 100
Yellow 51 to 75
Orange 26 to 50
Red 1 to 25
Blue 0
Procedure
1 Select Admin > Global Settings.
2 Modify the health range settings.
Option Action
Change the range for a color
Type different values in the From and To text boxes.
Change whether the health chart is
colored
Select or deselect the Health Chart Colored check box.
3 Click OK to save your changes.
Set the Interaction Metrics Count
In several locations in vCenter Operations Manager, you can select an object to see related items of another
type. For example, you can click a resource in the Resources widget to see its metrics in the Metric Sparklines
widget. You can select how many related items appear when you perform an interaction of this kind.
Procedure
1 Select Admin > Global Settings.
2 Select a number from the Important Metrics Count drop-down menu.
3 Click OK to save your changes.
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