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Customize the Performance Graph
You can specify whether change events appear in the performance graph on the Resource Detail page.
NOTE The performance graph is named Events and Performance or Events and Health, depending on whether
Health is selected.
Procedure
1 Select Admin > VM Global Settings.
2 To specify whether to show change events, select a Show Change Events option.
If you select Yes, change events appear as labels in the performance graph.
3 Click OK to save your changes.
Set the Time Period for History Graphs
You can specify the time period to include in the health, workload, and capacity history graphs that appear in
the upper-left pane of the Resource Detail page.
Procedure
1 Select Admin > VM Global Settings.
2 Select a time period from the History Duration drop-down menu.
3 Click OK to save your changes.
Modify Level Ranges
vCenter Operations Manager uses colored indicators for the health, workload, anomalies, faults, risk, time
remaining, capacity, stress, efficiency, waste, and density levels that appear in the VC Relationship widget and
on the Resource Detail page. You can modify the default values and define your own ranges for these levels.
Procedure
1 Select Admin > VM Global Settings.
2 For each level to modify, slide the triangular icons on the axis to the new values.
3 Click OK to save your changes.
The ranges are updated the next time the vCenter Operations Manager client refreshes.
Configure the Hierarchy Sort Order
You can set the order in which objects appear in the VC Relationship widget.
Procedure
1 Select Admin > VM Global Settings.
2 Select a Hierarchy Sort Order option.
Option Description
Parent Name/Self Name
Group all child objects of a parent object.
Self Name
Sort objects alphabetically by object name.
Value
Sort object icons according to the currently selected metric, from worst range
to best range.
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