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Table Of Contents
- vRealize Operations Manager Customization and Administration Guide
- Contents
- About Customization and Administration
- Configuring Users and Groups
- Customizing How vRealize Operations Manager Displays Your Data
- Customizing How vRealize Operations Manager Monitors Your Environment
- Defining Alerts in vRealize Operations Manager
- Object Relationship Hierarchies for Alert Definitions
- Alert Definition Best Practices
- Understanding Negative Symptoms for Alerts
- Create an Alert Definition for Department Objects
- Add Description and Base Object to Alert Definition
- Add a Virtual Machine CPU Usage Symptom to the Alert Definition
- Add a Host Memory Usage Symptom to the Alert Definition
- Add Recommendations to the Alert Definition
- Create a Custom Accounting Department Group
- Create a Policy for the Accounting Alert
- Configure Notifications for the Department Alert
- Create a Dashboard to Monitor Department Objects
- Defining Symptoms for Alerts
- Viewing Actions
- Defining Recommendations for Alert Definitions
- Creating and Managing Alert Notifications
- List of Outbound Plug-Ins
- Add Outbound Notification Plug-Ins
- Add a Standard Email Plug-In for Outbound Alerts
- Add a REST Plug-In for Outbound Alerts
- Add a Log File Plug-In for Outbound Alerts
- Add a Network Share Plug-In for vRealize Operations Manager Reports
- Add an SNMP Trap Plug-In for Outbound Alerts
- Add a Smarts Service Assurance Manager Notification Plug-In for Outbound Alerts
- Filtering Log File Outbound Messages With the TextFilter.xml File
- Configuring Notifications
- Defining Compliance Standards
- Operational Policies
- Managing and Administering Policies for vRealize Operations Manager
- Policy Decisions and Objectives
- Default Policy in vRealize Operations Manager
- Custom Policies
- Policies Provided with vRealize Operations Manager
- User Scenario: Create a Custom Operational Policy for a vSphere Production Environment
- User Scenario: Create an Operational Policy for Production vCenter Server Datastore Objects
- Create a Group Type for Your Datastore Objects
- Create an Object Group for Your Datastore Objects
- Create Your Policy and Select a Base Policy
- Override the Analysis Settings for the Datastore Objects
- Enable Disk Space Attributes for Datastore Objects
- Override Alert and Symptom Definitions for Datastore Objects
- Apply Your Datastore Policy to Your Datastore Objects Group
- Create a Dashboard for Disk Use of Your Datastore Objects
- Using the Monitoring Policy Workspace to Create and Modify Operational Policies
- Policy Workspace in vRealize Operations Manager
- Super Metrics in vRealize Operations Manager
- Customizing Icons
- Managing Objects in Your Environment
- Configuring Object Relationships
- Customizing How Endpoint Operations Management Monitors Operating Systems
- Modifying Global Settings
- Defining Alerts in vRealize Operations Manager
- Maintaining and Expanding vRealize Operations Manager
- Cluster and Node Maintenance
- Logging
- Passwords and Certificates
- How To Preserve Customized Content
- Backup and Restore
- OPS-CLI Command-Line Tool
- Index
Maintaining and Expanding
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vRealize Operations Manager provides features to help you perform maintenance, troubleshoot potential
issues, and optimize your work with vRealize Operations Manager.
The product includes cluster and node management options that let you work with the processing systems
at the heart of vRealize Operations Manager. When you need to troubleshoot the system, various logs collect
details related to how well vRealize Operations Manager is working and are available for bundling if
Technical Support needs to review them. You also have the ability to maintain passwords that control
operator access to the product, and authentication certicates that provide system-to-system security.
Some administration activities involve how vRealize Operations Manager monitors objects in the
environment. For example, maintenance mode seings prevent misleading data from appearing when
objects are oine or undergoing maintenance. Licensing activates vRealize Operations Manager monitoring
and solutions, and license groups organize objects for data collection under a particular license key. There
also are on-demand options to refresh installed adapter lists and gather information about adapter abilities,
and to recalculate dynamic thresholds so that vRealize Operations Manager captures the most recent data
for a particular metric.
When you are performing maintenance operations, it is good practice to stop the
Endpoint Operations Management agent and to restart it after the maintenance is complete to avoid
unnecessary system overhead.
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“vRealize Operations Manager Cluster and Node Maintenance,” on page 129
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“vRealize Operations Manager Logging,” on page 131
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“vRealize Operations Manager Passwords and Certicates,” on page 131
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“How To Preserve Customized Content,” on page 133
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“Backup and Restore,” on page 134
vRealize Operations Manager Cluster and Node Maintenance
You perform cluster and node maintenance procedures to help your vRealize Operations Manager perform
more eciently. cluster and node maintenance involves activities such as changing the online or oine state
of the cluster or individual nodes, enabling or disabling high availability (HA), reviewing statistics related to
the installed adapters, and rebalancing the workload for beer performance.
You perform most vRealize Operations Manager cluster and node maintenance using the Cluster
Management page in the product interface, or the Cluster Status and Troubleshooting page in the
administration interface. The administration interface provides more options than the product interface.
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