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
Table 4‑2. Advanced Health Tree Widget Toolbar Icons (Continued)
Icon Description
Reset To Initial Resource If you changed the central resource of the hierarchy, click this icon to return to the
initial resource. Clicking this icon also resets the initial display size.
Resource Detail Select a resource and click this icon to show the Resource Detail page for the
resource.
Show Alerts Select the resource in the hierarchy and click this icon to show alerts for the
resource. Alerts appear in a pop-up window. You can double-click an alert to
view its Alert Summary page.
Display Filtering Criteria Shows the filtering settings for the widget in a pop-up window.
Configure the Advanced Health Tree Widget
By default, the Advanced Health Tree widget includes all parent and child resources that match the selected
resource. You can edit the widget configuration to limit the parent and child resources that the widget
shows.
You can also configure other widgets to provide a resource to the Advanced Health Tree widget. See
“Configure Widget Interactions,” on page 61.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have the necessary access rights to perform this task. Your vCenter Operations Manager
administrator can tell you which actions you can perform.
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Open the Edit Widget window for the Advanced Health Tree widget. See “Edit a Widget
Configuration,” on page 54.
Procedure
1 Set Self Provider to On to define a resource in the widget configuration.
2 In the Resource Selection pane, select the resource.
To find a specific resource, type all or part of the resource name in the Search text box and click the
right angle bracket (>).
The name of the resource that you select appears after Selected Resource.
3 (Optional) To limit the parent and child resources that the widget shows, select one or more tag values
in the Select which tags to filter pane.
You can use icons on the toolbar at the top of the pane to collapse, expand, and deselect all of the tags in
the list
When you select more than one value for the same tag, the widget shows resources that have either
value. When you select values for two or more tags, the widget shows only resources that have all of
the values that you select. When you click the Invert Result icon, the widget shows only resources that
do not match the tag values that you select.
4 Click OK to save the widget configuration.
5 (Optional) To verify the filtering settings that you configured for the widget, click the Display Filtering
Criteria icon on the widget's toolbar.
The filtering settings appear in a pop-up window.
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