6.3

Using the Monitoring Policy Workspace to Create and Modify Operational
Policies
You can use the workow in the monitoring policy workspace to create local policies quickly, and update
the seings in existing policies. Select a base policy to use as the source for your local policy seings, and
modify the thresholds and seings used for analysis and collection of data from groups of objects in your
environment. A policy that has no local seings dened inherits the seings from its base policy to apply to
the associated object groups.
Customize Operational Policies (hp://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid2296383276001?
bctid=ref:video_customize_policies_vrom)
Prerequisites
Verify that objects groups exist for vRealize Operations Manager to analyze and collect data, and if they do
not exist, create them. See “Managing Custom Object Groups in VMware vRealize Operations Manager,” on
page 21.
Procedure
1 Click Administration, and click Policies.
2 Click Policy Library, and click the plus sign to add a policy, or select the policy and click the pencil to
edit an existing policy.
You can add and edit policies on the Policy Library tab, and remove certain policies. You can use the
Base Seings policy or the Default Policy as the root policy for the seings in other policies that you
create. You can set any policy to be the default policy.
3 In the Geing Started workspace, assign a name and description to the policy.
Give the policy a meaningful name and description so that all users know the purpose of the policy.
4 Click Select Base Policies, and in the workspace, select one or more policies to use as a baseline to
dene the seings for your new local policy.
When you create a new policy, you can use any of the policies provided with
vRealize Operations Manager as a baseline source for your new policy seings.
5 Click Override Analysis , and in the workspace, lter the object types to customize your policy
for the objects to associate with this policy.
Filter the object types, and modify the seings for those object types so that
vRealize Operations Manager collects and displays the data that you expect in the dashboards and
views.
6 Click Override , and in the workspace, select the metric, property, or super metric aributes
to include in your policy.
vRealize Operations Manager collects data from the objects in your environment based on the metric,
property, or super metric aributes that you include in the policy.
7 Click Override Alert / Symptom , and in the workspace, enable or disable the alert
denitions and symptom denitions for your policy.
vRealize Operations Manager identies problems on objects in your environment and triggers alerts
when conditions occur that qualify as problems.
Chapter 3 Customizing How vRealize Operations Manager Monitors Your Environment
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