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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
Reset the vRealize Operations Manager Administrator Password on vApp or
Linux Clusters
If the admin account password is lost, you need to reset the password.
When the vRealize Operations Manager password for the built-in admin account is lost, follow these steps
to reset it on vApp or Linux clusters.
Prerequisites
This procedure requires root account credentials.
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In vRealize Operations Manager vApp deployments, when you log in to the console of the virtual
application for the rst time, you are forced to set a root password.
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The vRealize Operations Manager console root password can be dierent than the admin account
password that you set when conguring the vRealize Operations Manager master node.
Procedure
1 Log in to the master node command line console as root.
2 Enter the following command, and follow the prompts.
$VMWARE_PYTHON_BIN $VCOPS_BASE/../vmware-
vcopssuite/utilities/sliceConfiguration/bin/vcopsSetAdminPassword.py --reset
Reset the vRealize Operations Manager Administrator Password on Windows
Clusters
If the admin account password is lost, you need to reset the password.
When the vRealize Operations Manager password for the built-in admin account is lost, follow these steps
to reset it on Windows clusters.
Procedure
1 Open the command prompt using the Run as Administrator option.
2 Enter the following command, and follow the prompts.
%VMWARE_PYTHON_BIN% %VCOPS_BASE%\..\vmware-
vcopssuite\utilities\sliceConfiguration\bin\vcopsSetAdminPassword.py --reset
Generate a vRealize Operations Manager Passphrase
When users need to add a node to the vRealize Operations Manager cluster, you can generate a temporary
passphrase instead of giving them the master administrator login credentials, which might be a security
issue.
A temporary passphrase is good for one use only.
Prerequisites
Create and congure the master node.
Procedure
1 In a Web browser, navigate to the vRealize Operations Manager administration interface at
hps://master-node-name-or-ip-address/admin.
2 Log in with the admin username and password for the master node.
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