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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide
- Introducing Key Features and Concepts
- Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment
- Object Type Icons in the Inventory Pane
- Badge Concepts for vCenter Operations Manager
- Major Badges in vCenter Operations Manager
- Working with Metrics and Charts on the All Metrics Tab
- Viewing Members and Relationships in the Monitored Environment
- Check the Performance of Your Virtual Environment
- Balancing the Resources in Your Virtual Environment
- Find an ESX Host that Has Resources for More Virtual Machines
- Find a Cluster that Has Resources Available for More Virtual Machines
- Ranking the Health, Risk, and Efficiency Scores
- View the Compliance Details
- View a List of Members
- Overview of Relationships
- Troubleshooting with vCenter Operations Manager
- Troubleshooting Overview
- Troubleshooting a Help Desk Problem
- Troubleshooting an Alert
- Finding Problems in the Virtual Environment
- Finding the Cause of the Problem
- Determine Whether the Environment Operates as Expected
- Identify the Source of Performance Degradation
- Identify the Underlying Memory Resource Problem for a Virtual Machine
- Identify the Underlying Memory Resource Problem for Clusters and Hosts
- Identify the Top Resource Consumers
- Identify Events that Occurred when an Object Experienced Performance Degradation
- Determine the Extent of a Performance Degradation
- Determine the Timeframe and Nature of a Health Issue
- Determine the Cause of a Problem with a Specific Object
- Fix the Cause of the Problem
- Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager
- Analyzing Data for Capacity Risk
- Determine When an Object Might Run Out of Resources
- Identify Clusters with the Space for Virtual Machines
- Investigating Abnormal Host Health
- Identify Datastores with Space for Virtual Machines
- Identify Datastores with Wasted Space
- Address a Problem with a Specific Virtual Machine
- Identify the Virtual Machines with Resource Waste Across Datastores
- Address a Problem with a Specific Datastore
- 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
- Analyzing Data for Capacity Risk
- Working with Faults and Alerts
- Working with Groups
- Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager
- Create a New Policy
- Set the General Parameters of a Policy
- Associate a Policy with One or More Groups
- Customize Badge Thresholds for Infrastructure Objects
- Customize Badge Thresholds for Virtual Machine Objects
- Customize the Badge Thresholds for Groups
- Modify Capacity and Time Remaining Settings
- Modify Usable Capacity Settings
- Modify Usage Calculation Settings
- Modify the Criteria for Powered-Off and Idle Virtual Machine State
- Modify the Criteria for Oversized and Undersized Virtual Machines
- Modify the Criteria for Underused and Stressed Capacity
- Select Which Badges Generate Alerts
- Modify Trend and Forecast Analysis Settings
- Modify an Existing Policy
- Modify Summary, Views, and Reports Settings
- Create a New Policy
- Monitor the Performance of vCenter Operations Manager
- Index
Select Which Badges Generate Alerts
You can select the badges for which you want alerts to appear on the Alerts tab in
vCenter Operations Manager.
Alerts are generated when a badge changes its color based on the badge score metrics.
An administrator can modify any policy in vCenter Operations Manager at any time. The changes that the
administrator applies affect all users. Therefore, the administrator must notify the users who are working
with vCenter Operations Manager about any new settings that are applied to the policies.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client as an administrator, and vCenter Operations Manager is
open.
Procedure
1 Click the Configuration link on the main vCenter Operations Manager page.
2 Create a new policy or open an existing policy for editing.
Option Description
To create a new policy
In the Manage Policies pane, click the Create Policy icon .
To modify an existing policy
In the Manage Policies pane, select the policy that you want to associate to
groups and click the Edit Policy icon .
3 Click 5 Configure Alerts and select the badges for which you want to generate alerts when their color
changes.
You can activate alerts for virtual machines, for other virtual infrastructure objects, and for groups.
4 (Optional) To trigger an alert each time a fault occurs on the vCenter Server, select Generate alerts on
individual faults.
vCenter Operations Manager calculates fault badge scores based on the number of events retrieved
from the vCenter Server and does not weigh the importance of the events. Therefore, if the Generate
alerts on individual faults option is disabled, the Faults badge color might remain unchanged if a
single event occurs, and as a result, you might miss a critical fault event that occurs on the vCenter
Server.
5 Click OK or Finish to save your settings, or select another option to configure.
6 Click Done to close the Configuration dialog box.
vCenter Operations Manager generates alerts based on the settings you have applied.
Modify Trend and Forecast Analysis Settings
You can define trend and forecast parameters around data points that include outlier detection or
smoothing filters.
An administrator can modify any policy in vCenter Operations Manager at any time. The changes that the
administrator applies affect all users. Therefore, the administrator must notify the users who are working
with vCenter Operations Manager about any new settings that are applied to the policies.
For information about techniques to address outliers and fluctuations in data points that might mislead the
trend and forecast calculations, see “Outlier Detection and Smoothing Filters in vCenter Operations
Manager,” on page 108.
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