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Table 12‑2. vcops_parameters.properties File Properties
Property Description
NUMBER_INBOUND_ADAPTERS_ON_ALIVE_SERVER
Number of inbound adapters that
vCenter Operations Manager uses.
NUMBER_CONTAINERS
Estimated number of container resources that will be
configured.
NUMBER_RESOURCES
Number of resources for the tool to use as a starting point
for the estimation. Set this number to approximately twice
the maximum number of resources that you estimate this
installation needs to support.
NUMBER_METRICS_PER_RESOURCE
Average number of metrics to track for each resource.
NUMBER_APPLIED_SUPERMETRICS_PER_CONTAINER
Average number of super metrics for each container
resource.
MINUTE_COLLECTION_PERIOD
How often metric values are collected, in minutes.
DAYS_DATA_RETENTION
Number of days metric data is retained.
CONCURRENT_USERS
Estimated average number of concurrent
vCenter Operations Manager users.
REMOTE_COLLECTORS
Number of installed remote collectors.
OUTBOUND_ADAPTERS
Number of outbound adapters.
NUMBER_FSDB_WRITE_CYCLES
Number of times to write data to the FSDB during the file
I/O test. The higher the number, the more accurate the
estimation, but the longer the test takes.
GOAL_HOURS_DT_CALCULATION
Maximum number of hours dynamic threshold
calculations should take to complete.
NUMBER_DT_PLUGINS
Average number of dynamic threshold processors that are
used for dynamic threshold calculations.
vcops_server_configuration.properties File
The vcops_server_configuration.properties file contains connection information for the
vCenter Operations Manager server on the host. runvcopsServerConfiguration uses the values in this file to
connect to a host.
You set the properties in vcops_server_configuration.properties only on a Windows host. You do not
need to modify this file on a Linux host.
Table 12‑3. vcops_server_configuration.properties Properties
Property Description
ALIVE_SERVER_HOSTNAME
Host name or IP address of the host. If you are using
runvcopsServerConfiguration on the host, you can set this
property to localhost.
ALIVE_SERVER_USERNAME
User name to use to connect to the host.
ALIVE_SERVER_PASSWORD_ENCRYPTED Leave this property set to false. When you first run the
runvcopsServerConfiguration, the tool encrypts the
password value and change this value to true.
ALIVE_SERVER_PASSWORD
Password for the user named in
ALIVE_SERVER_USER_NAME. This property is encrypted
when you run runvcopsServerConfiguration.
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