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Table 2-12. Object Density States (Continued)
Badge Icon Description User Action
The resource consolidation is
extremely low.
Select Planning > Views to
identify resource consolidation
opportunities.
No data is available for any of
the metrics for the time period.
The object is offline.
A vCenter Operations Manager administrator can change the badge score thresholds. For example, a green
Density badge can indicate a score above 40 instead of 25, as set by default.
Working with Metrics and Charts on the All Metrics Tab
You can check the location of an object in the hierarchy and select metrics to view graphs of their historic values
for a period you define.
You can use the panes on the All Metrics tab under the Operations tab to search metrics and view metric
graphs.
The Health Tree Pane
The Health Tree pane displays the location of the currently selected object in the hierarchy of your virtual
infrastructure. You can check all parent and child objects related to the currently selected object.
For example, the sample hierarchy shows the parent and child objects in the virtual infrastructure. The red
icon indicates a presence of a potential problem in the vCenter Server object. You can investigate the probable
cause of the problem from the Dashboard tab.
The Metric Selector Pane
The Metric Selector pane contains a list of all metric groups that are applicable to the currently selected object.
Metric groups contain all the metrics that are applicable to the currently selected object. The list of available
metrics is updated depending on the object you selected in the Health Tree pane.
The Search text box allows you find metrics using part of their names and filter the search results by metric
groups, instances or metric types.
For example, if you type % in the Search text box and select Metric from the drop-down menu, the search result
contains only metrics that are calculated as percentage.
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