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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
2 Select the adapter kind that contains the resource kind for which you want to set defaults from the Adapter
kind drop-down menu.
3 In the list on the left, select the resource kind.
4 Select the default attribute package from the Attribute package drop-down menu.
5 Select the default super metric package from the Super Metric package drop-down menu.
6 Select the Enable or Disable check box to specify whether resources generate early warning smart alerts
and use dynamic thresholds by default.
7 Click OK to save your changes.
Skip Health Rollup for a Resource
You can configure vCenter Operations Manager to skip the health rollup of a particular resource to the parent
resource.
Procedure
1 Open the analytics.properties file in the
vcenter-ops
\user\conf\analytics directory.
NOTE The vCenter Operations Manager vApp uses the analytics.properties file on the Analytics virtual
machine.
2 List the resource kinds that you do not want to be dependent on their children's health in the
skipHealthRollupRKList property.
For example: skipHealthRollupRKList = HostSystem
3 Save your changes and close the analytics.properties file.
4 Restart the Analytics service to make your changes take effect.
Modifying Resource Tags
To maintain resource tags, you might need to remove a resource from a tag value, edit or delete a resource tag,
or edit or delete a tag value.
Edit a Resource Tag
When you edit a resource tag, you can change the tag name and the names of its tag values.
Procedure
1 Select Environment > Environment Overview.
2 Click the Manage Tags icon on the left side of the page.
3 Edit the resource tag.
Option Action
Change the resource tag name
Double-click the tag name and type a new name.
Change a tag value name
Expand the tag to show its values and double-click the value to type a new
name.
4 Click OK to save your changes.
Your changes appear in the tag list on the Environment Overview page.
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