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Select a Relationship
The Relationships tab displays different types of relationships of a selected object. Depending on your
choice you can select the type of relationship that you want to view.
Procedure
1 Click the Relationships tab under the Environment tab.
2 From the Show drop-down menu, select the relationships that you want to view.
Relationships Description
All Relationships
Displays the sum of all the three relationships. This relationship is selected
by default.
vSphere Relationships
Displays relationships between the vSphere objects.
Group Relationships
Displays the group relationships with respect to the selected object.
Application Relationships
You can view this relationship only at the virtual machine level. Displays
the following relationships between the virtual machines and application
objects:
n
Set of applications that run on the selected virtual machine.
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Set of applications that the selected virtual machine depends on.
Viewing the Properties of an Object
You can see a graphical view of an object's child relationships on the Relationships tab. You can use the
Relationship graph pane buttons to manipulate the graph, and select the type of relationships to view.
For the selected object in the left-hand inventory pane, the Relationships tab displays a graph of the object's
relationships and a list of its properties. The list displays the number of objects that have each property.
Properties vary according to the type of object.
Procedure
1 In the inventory pane, click the object for which you want to view relationships.
2 Click the Relationships tab under the Environment tab.
The relationship graph and properties of the object are displayed. (You can also directly select the object
and see its object properties by double-clicking the object from the relationship graph.)
3 Use the Relationships graph pane buttons to examine objects in the graph.
4 Use the Show drop-down list to select the type of relationships to view.
5 (Optional) To view the properties of any object in the relationship graph, click the object.
View the Properties of the Application Object
The vCenter Operations Manager user interface displays the relationships graph and object properties of an
application object. The properties of an application object include Process, Listening Port, Category, Runs
on, and Dependent of Service.
At the virtual machine level, the relationship graph also displays the application that are running on this
virtual machine and applications that this selected virtual machine depends on. If you select any application
from the relationship graph, the application object properties of that application is displayed. The virtual
machines that are above the application node are a set of virtual machines that depend on the selected
application. The virtual machines that are below the application node are the virtual machines that the
application runs on.
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