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Interpreting Performance Information
vCenter Operations Manager provides performance information related to its own operation. Performance
information is divided into multiple panes on the Status tab.
Health Status
Shows the health graph and the current health score. To see the exact health score from a time on the graph,
point to that time. You can point to the More icon to see its collector and other information.
Root Cause Ranking
Shows the root causes of any current health degradation. Double-click a symptom group to list specific
resources that show that symptom. You can also double-click a specific symptom resource to open a pop-up
window that shows details about the specific threshold violations.
Metric Selector
Shows the metric groups that are selected in the Health Tree pane. Expand a metric group to see the individual
metrics. To see a graph for a metric in the Metric Graphs pane, double-click it or select it and click the Move
to Graph icon.
Health Tree
Shows the section of the health tree around vCenter Operations Manager. You can select a resource to list its
metrics, select a resource and click the Show Detail icon to show the Resource Detail page, or select a resource
and click the Show Alerts icon to list current alerts.
Metric Graph
Shows graphs for the selected metrics.
View Status Information
You can view status information for vCenter Operations Manager collectors, adapters, and dynamic threshold
calculations. Dynamic threshold calculations are part of vCenter Operations Manager analytics.
Procedure
1 Select Admin > Support.
2 Click the Info tab.
The status information on the Info tab is divided into multiple panes.
Interpret the information on the Info tab. See “Interpreting Status Information,” on page 104.
Interpreting Status Information
vCenter Operations Manager reports status information for collectors, adapters, and dynamic threshold
calculations. Status information is divided into multiple panes on the Info tab.
Describe Info
Shows the status of the describe process, which sends information about the data that can be collected from
each adapter to the vCenter Operations Manager server. The describe status for individual adapters appears
in the Adapter Info pane.
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