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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide
- Introducing Custom User Interface Features and Concepts
- Introducing Common Tasks
- Logging In and Using vCenter Operations Manager
- Monitoring Day-to-Day Operations
- Handling Alerts
- Optimizing Your Resources
- Designing Your Workspace
- Working with Dashboards
- Create a Dashboard
- Clone a Dashboard
- Edit a Dashboard
- Delete a Dashboard
- Create a Dashboard Template
- Hide a Dashboard Tab
- Change the Order of Dashboard Tabs
- Delete a Dashboard Template
- Configure Dashboard Switching
- Share a Dashboard
- Stop Sharing a Dashboard for all Users
- Stop Sharing a Dashboard for a Group
- Export a Dashboard
- Import a Dashboard
- vSphere Dashboards
- Working with Widgets
- Working with Dashboards
- Using and Configuring Widgets
- Edit a Widget Configuration
- Supported Widget Interactions
- Configure Widget Interactions
- Advanced Health Tree Widget
- Alerts Widget
- Application Detail Widget
- Application Overview Widget
- Configuration Overview Widget
- Custom Relationship Widget
- Data Collection Results Widget
- Data Distribution Analysis Widget
- Generic Scoreboard Widget
- GEO Widget
- Health Status Widget
- Health Tree Widget
- Health-Workload Scoreboard Widget
- Heat Map Widget
- Mashup Charts Widget
- Metric Graph Widget
- Metric Graph (Rolling View) Widget
- Metric Selector Widget
- Metric Sparklines Widget
- Metric Weather Map Widget
- Resources Widget
- Root Cause Ranking Widget
- Tag Selector Widget
- Text Widget
- Top-N Analysis Widget
- VC Relationship Widget
- VC Relationship (Planning) Widget
- Define Metric Sets for a Widget
- Index
2 Select tag values in the Select which tags to show list to show only resources that have certain tag
values in the widget.
You can use icons on the toolbar at the top of the list to collapse, expand, and deselect all of the tags in
the list.
When you select more than one value for the same tag, the widget includes resources that have either
value. When you select values for two or more tags, the widget includes only resources that have all of
the selected values. When you click the Invert Result icon, the widget includes only resources that do
not match the tag values that you select.
3 Click OK to save the widget configuration.
Health Status Widget
The Health Status widget shows the health score for selected resources. You can also configure the widget to
show a custom metric and specify colors for metric ranges.
Health status is a 0 to 100 ranking that vCenter Operations Manager determines for each resource. For each
resource, the widget includes the current health score and a graph that shows how the health score has
changed over time. You can double-click the graph for a resource to view the Resource Detail page for that
resource.
Figure 4‑9. Health Status Widget
If vCenter Operations Manager does not receive metrics for a resource at a particular time, it cannot
calculate a health score for that time and it shows a score of -1 on the graph. A -1 score can occur if collection
is turned off for a resource or if vCenter Operations Manager encounters a data gathering problem.
Configure the Health Status Widget
You can filter the resources that the Health Status widget shows by editing the widget configuration. You
can also configure the widget to show a custom metric.
You can also configure other widgets to provide resources to the Health Status widget. See “Configure
Widget Interactions,” on page 63.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have the necessary access rights to perform this task. Your vCenter Operations Manager
administrator can tell you which actions you can perform.
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Open the Edit Widget window for the Health Status widget. See “Edit a Widget Configuration,” on
page 56.
Procedure
1 Set Self Provider to On to define resources in the widget configuration.
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