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- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Advanced Getting Started Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Advanced Getting Started Guide
- vCenter Operations Manager Features
- Preparing to Monitor a vCenter Operations Manager Virtual Environment
- Object Type Icons in the Inventory Pane
- Badge Concepts for vCenter Operations Manager Planning
- Major Badges in vCenter Operations Manager
- Working with Metrics and Charts on the All Metrics Tab
- Planning the vCenter Operations Manager Workflow
- Monitoring Day-to-Day Activity in vCenter Operations Manager
- Identify an Overall Health Issue
- Determine the Timeframe and Nature of a Health Issue
- Determine Whether the Environment Operates as Expected
- Identify the Source of Performance Degradation
- Identify Events that Occurred when an Object Experienced Performance Degradation
- Identify the Top Resource Consumers
- Determine the Extent of a Performance Degradation
- Determine When an Object Might Run Out of Resources
- Determine the Cause of a Problem with a Specific Object
- Address a Problem with a Specific Virtual Machine
- Address a Problem with a Specific Datastore
- Identify Objects with Stressed Capacity
- Identify Stressed Objects with vCenter Operations Manager
- Identify the Underlying Memory Resource Problem for Clusters and Hosts
- Identify the Underlying Memory Resource Problem for a Virtual Machine
- Determine the Percentage of Used and Remaining Capacity to Assess Current Needs
- Preparing Proactive Workflows in vCenter Operations Manager
- Planning and Analyzing Data for Capacity Risk
- Identify Clusters with the Space for Virtual Machines
- Identify the Source of Performance Degradation Through Heat Maps
- Identify Datastores with Space for Virtual Machines
- Identify Datastores with Wasted Space
- Identify the Virtual Machines with Resource Waste Across Datastores
- Identify the Host and Datastore with the Highest Latency
- Optimizing Data for Capacity
- Determine How Efficiently You Use the Virtual Infrastructure
- Identify the Consolidation Ratio Trend for a Datacenter or Cluster
- Determine Reclaimable Resources from Underused Objects
- Assess Virtual Machine Capacity Use
- Assess Virtual Machine Optimization Data
- Identify Powered-Off Virtual Machines to Optimize Data
- Identify Idle Virtual Machines to Optimize Capacity
- Identify Oversized Virtual Machines to Optimize Data
- Determine the Trend of Waste for a Virtual Machine
- Forecasting Data for Capacity Risk
- Create Capacity Scenarios for Virtual Machines With New Profiles
- Create Capacity Scenarios for Virtual Machines With Existing Profiles
- Create a Hardware Change Scenario
- Create a What-If Scenario to Remove Virtual Machines
- Combine the Results of What-If Scenarios
- Compare the Results of What-If Scenarios
- Delete a Scenario from the What-If Scenarios List
- Planning and Analyzing Data for Capacity Risk
- Planning vCenter Operations Manager Workflow with Alerts
- Customizing vCenter Operations Manager Configuration Settings
- Index
2 Click the Alerts tab to view a list of active alerts.
3 To view the alert distribution across the last seven days, check the Alert Volume graph.
A trend in alerts typically indicates a problem to investigate. Over time, you might also want to customize
alert settings, which will be reflected in the trend display.
Maintaining vCenter Operations Manager Alerts
Maintaining alerts in the vCenter Operations Manager environment requires administrative privileges.
After identifying an alert from the Alerts list, administrators can take and release ownership of the alert,
suspend, suppress, or cancel an alert.
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Take Ownership of an Alert on page 52
Users can take ownership of alerts in the Alerts list.
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Release Ownership of an Alert on page 53
If you are no longer responsible for an alert or want to let other users take ownership of that alert, you
must release the ownership.
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Suppress an Alert on page 53
You can hide an alert from the Alerts list for a specific number of days.
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Suspend an Alert on page 54
You can hide an alert from the Alerts list for a specific number of minutes.
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Cancel a Fault Alert on page 54
You can deactivate fault alerts if they are no longer valid.
Take Ownership of an Alert
Users can take ownership of alerts in the Alerts list.
Owning an alert means that you are responsible for taking the necessary remediation actions, and prevents
other users from suspending or suppressing the alert. This can reduce overlapping efforts when multiple
operators manage alerts. The user names of alert owners appear in the User Name column of the Alerts list.
IMPORTANT Only owners can suspend or suppress the alerts they own.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client, and vCenter Operations Manager is open.
Procedure
1 Click the Alerts tab.
2 In the Alerts list, click the alert you want to own.
3 (Optional) To select multiple alerts in the list, press the Shift or Control key and click to select the alerts.
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Click the Take Ownership button .
5 Click Yes to confirm.
The alert appears as Assigned in the Control State column of the alert list.
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