6.3

Tag Value Selection Objects Displayed
More than one value for the
same tag
The list includes objects that have either value. For example, if you select two values
of the Object Types tag, such as Datacenter and Host System, the list shows objects
that have either value.
Values for two or more
dierent tags
The list includes only objects that have all of the selected values. For example, if you
select two values of the Object Types tag, such as Datacenter and Host System, and
you also select an adapter instance such as vC-1 of the vCenter Adapter instance tag,
only Datacenter or Host System objects associated with vC-1 appear in the list.
Datacenter or Host System objects associated with other adapter instances do not
appear in the list, nor do objects that are not Datacenter or Host System objects.
4 Select the object from the list.
Configuring Object Relationships
vRealize Operations Manager shows the relationship between objects in your environment. Most
relationships are automatically formed when the objects are discovered by an installed adapter. In addition,
you can use vRealize Operations Manager to create relationships between objects that might not normally be
related.
Objects are related physically, logically, or structurally.
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Physical relationships represent how objects connect in the physical world. For example, virtual
machines running on a host are physically related.
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Logical relationships represent business silos. For example, all the storage objects in an environment are
related to one another.
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Structural relationships represent a business value. For example, all the virtual machines that support a
database are structurally related.
Solutions use adapters to monitor the objects in your environment so that physical relationship changes are
reected in vRealize Operations Manager. To maintain logical or structural relationships, you can use
vRealize Operations Manager to dene the object relationships. When objects are related, a problem with
one object appears as an anomaly on related objects. So object relationships can help you to identify
problems in your environment quickly.
Adding an Object Relationship
Parent-child relationships normally occur between interrelated objects in your environment. For example, a
data center object for a vCenter Adapter instance might have datastore, cluster, and host system child
objects.
The most common object relationships gather similar objects into groups. When you dene a custom group
with parent objects, a summary of that group shows alerts for that object and for any of its descendants. You
can create relationships between objects that might not normally be related. For example, you might dene a
child object for an object in the group. You dene these types of relationships by conguring object
relationships.
Procedure
1 Select Administration > Object Relationships.
2 In the Parent Selection column, expand the object tag and select a tag value that contains the object to
act as the parent object.
The objects for the tag value appear in the top pane of the second column.
3 Select a parent object.
Current child objects appear in the boom pane of the second column.
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