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Edit an Adapter Instance
When you edit an adapter instance, you can change any of its attributes. The information that you can modify
depends on the adapter kind.
Procedure
1 Select Environment > Configuration > Adapter Instances.
2 (Optional) Filter the list of adapter instances.
a Select the collector to use from the Collector drop-down menu.
Unless you added additional collectors, the only available collector is vCenter Operations Server.
You can change the name of this collector when you install vCenter Operations Manager Standalone.
b Select the adapter kind of the adapter instance to edit from the Adapter kind drop-down menu.
3 Select the adapter instance to edit and click the Edit Selected Adapter Instance icon.
4 Edit the adapter instance information.
5 Click Test to test the adapter instance.
6 Click OK to save your changes.
Delete an Adapter Instance
If an adapter instance is no longer needed, you can delete it.
Procedure
1 Select Environment > Configuration > Adapter Instances.
2 (Optional) Filter the list of adapter instances.
a Select the collector to use from the Collector drop-down menu.
Unless you added additional collectors, the only available collector is vCenter Operations Server.
You can change the name of this collector when you install vCenter Operations Manager Standalone.
b Select the kind of the adapter instance to delete from the Adapter kind drop-down menu.
3 Select the adapter instance and click the Remove Selected Adapter Instance icon.
4 Click Yes to confirm the deletion.
Connecting to HP OpenView Operations
vCenter Operations Manager can collect and analyze metrics from devices that are monitored by HP OpenView
Operations (OVO) for Windows or UNIX. A custom SmartLink (SPI) pushes the metrics to the
vCenter Operations Manager collector, which registers and forwards the metrics to
vCenter Operations Manager.
As with other external adapters, you do not use vCenter Operations Manager to configure resources, or nodes,
that OpenView monitors.
Because the custom SPI sends metrics directly to the vCenter Operations Manager collector, the OpenView
adapter is scalable. Scalability is limited only by the amount of network I/O and drive I/O. You can scale up
the adapter by adopting additional SPIs or by implementing a hardware load balancer.
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