5.7.1
Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide
- Introducing Custom User Interface Features and Concepts
- Introducing Common Tasks
- Logging In and Using vCenter Operations Manager
- Monitoring Day-to-Day Operations
- Handling Alerts
- Optimizing Your Resources
- Designing Your Workspace
- Working with Dashboards
- Create a Dashboard
- Clone a Dashboard
- Edit a Dashboard
- Delete a Dashboard
- Create a Dashboard Template
- Hide a Dashboard Tab
- Change the Order of Dashboard Tabs
- Delete a Dashboard Template
- Configure Dashboard Switching
- Share a Dashboard
- Stop Sharing a Dashboard
- Export a Dashboard
- Import a Dashboard
- vSphere Dashboards
- Working with Widgets
- Working with Dashboards
- Using and Configuring Widgets
- Edit a Widget Configuration
- Supported Widget Interactions
- Configure Widget Interactions
- Advanced Health Tree Widget
- Alerts Widget
- Application Detail Widget
- Application Overview Widget
- Configuration Overview Widget
- Custom Relationship Widget
- Data Distribution Analysis Widget
- Generic Scoreboard Widget
- GEO Widget
- Health Status Widget
- Health Tree Widget
- Health-Workload Scoreboard Widget
- Heat Map Widget
- Mashup Charts Widget
- Metric Graph Widget
- Metric Graph (Rolling View) Widget
- Metric Selector Widget
- Metric Sparklines Widget
- Metric Weather Map Widget
- Resources Widget
- Root Cause Ranking Widget
- Tag Selector Widget
- Text Widget
- Top-N Analysis Widget
- VC Relationship Widget
- VC Relationship (Planning) Widget
- Define Metric Sets for a Widget
- Index
Figure 1‑9. Example of Top-N Analysis
Isolating and Resolving Issues with Problem Fingerprinting
When a KPI for an application or tier violates a threshold, vCenter Operations Manager examines the events
that preceded the violation. If it finds enough related information, it captures the set of events that preceded
the violation as a fingerprint. If vCenter Operations Manager finds a similar series of events in the future, it
can issue a predictive alert to warn of a likely KPI violation.
Fingerprinting helps you to quickly isolate and resolve problems by reducing the number of possible silos
and tiers in which a problem might have occurred, capturing the events that precede a problem for root-
cause analysis, and notifying you of problems before they occur.
You can see fingerprint information on the Problem Fingerprint Library page. If you select a fingerprint
branch in the left pane, the details for that branch appear in the right pane.
Figure 1‑10. Example of Problem Fingerprints
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