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Customize an Adapter Kind Icon
vCenter Operations Manager uses icons to represent the kind of adapter through which you access each
resource. For example, icons appear in the Data Source column of widgets that list resources. You can customize
icons to represent any kind of adapter.
Procedure
1 Select Enviroment > Advanced > Adapter Kind Icons.
2 (Optional) To upload your own icon to use, click the Upload Icon icon, browse to and select the file to
use, and click Open.
The icon appears in the icon list.
3 Assign the adapter kind icon.
Option Description
Assign an icon or change an
assigned icon
Select the adapter kind in the list, click the icon to assign, and click the Assign
Icon icon.
Return to the default icon
Select the adapter kind in the list and click the Assign Default Icons icon.
4 Click OK.
5 (Optional) If you returned to the default icon and you want to delete your icon from the icon list, delete
the icon file in the
vcenter-ops
\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\images\adpknd directory.
You cannot remove an icon file from within vCenter Operations Manager.
Suppress No Data Receiving Alerts
You can configure an adapter instance to stop generating alerts when it is not receiving data.
Prerequisites
Become familiar with how to start and stop the Analytics service. See “Start or StopvCenter Operations
Manager Services,” on page 102.
Procedure
1 Open the advanced.properties file in the
vcenter-ops
\user\conf\analytics directory.
2 Add the property disabledNoDataReceivingAlertIds =
resourceID
.
resourceID
is the resource ID of the adapter instance.
3 Save your changes and close the advanced.properties file.
4 Restart the Analytics service.
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