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Table Of Contents
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Contents
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Updated Information
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Broadcast a Message on the Message Board Portlet
- Starting Up and Shutting Down vRealize Automation
- Updating vRealize Automation Certificates
- Extracting Certificates and Private Keys
- Replace Certificates in the vRealize Automation appliance
- Replace the Infrastructure as a Service Certificate
- Replace the IaaS Manager Service Certificate
- Updating the vRealize Automation Appliance Management Site Certificate
- Replace a Management Agent Certificate
- Change the Polling Method for Certificates
- Managing the vRealize Automation Postgres Appliance Database
- Backup and Recovery for vRealize Automation Installations
- The Customer Experience Improvement Program
- Adjusting System Settings
- Monitoring vRealize Automation
- Monitoring and Managing Resources
- Monitoring Containers
- Bulk Import, Update, or Migrate Virtual Machines
- Managing Machines
- Managing Virtual Machines
- Running Actions for Provisioned Resources
4 Perform the appropriate replica maintenance.
5 When the maintenance is complete, ensure that the virtual appliance is running with network
connectivity and that its HAProxy service is running.
a Log in to the vRealize Automation management console as root.
b Ensure that the replica node can be pinged, resolved by name, and has a recent status in the
6 Click Reset for the replica node.
This operation resets the database so that it is configured to replicate to the current master and
resynchronizes the replica node with the latest haproxy configuration from the master node.
7 Following successful reset, return the replica virtual appliance node IP address to the external virtual
appliance load balancer IP address pool.
8 Ensure that the replica node appears healthy on the Configure Postgres vRA Database table and that
it can be pinged and resolved by name.
Backup and Recovery for vRealize Automation
Installations
To minimize system downtime and data loss in the event of failures, administrators back up the entire
vRealize Automation installation on a regular basis. If your system fails, you can recover by restoring the
last known working backup and reinstalling some components.
To backup and restore vRealize Automation, see the following topics in the vRealize Suite documentation:
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vRealize Automation Preparations for Backing Up
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vRealize Automation System Recovery
The Customer Experience Improvement Program
This product participates in VMware's Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP). The CEIP
provides VMware with information that enables VMware to improve its products and services, to fix
problems, and to advise you on how best to deploy and use our products. You can choose to join or leave
the CEIP for vRealize Automation at any time.
Details regarding the data collected through CEIP and the purposes for which it is used by VMware are
set forth at the Trust & Assurance Center at http://www.vmware.com/trustvmware/ceip.html.
Join or Leave the Customer Experience Improvement Program for
vRealize Automation
You can join or leave the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) for vRealize Automation at
any time.
vRealize Automation gives you the opportunity to join the Customer Experience Improvement Program
(CEIP) when you initially install and configure the product. After installation, you can join or leave the
CEIP by following these steps.
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