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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
GeneralUser-1 through
GeneralUser-4
These predened template roles are initially dened as ReadOnly roles.
vCenter Server administrators can congure these roles to create
combinations of roles to give users multiple types of privileges. Roles are
synchronized to vCenter Server once during registration.
AgentManager
Users can deploy and congure Endpoint Operations Management agents.
User Scenario: Manage User Access Control
As a system administrator or virtual infrastructure administrator, you manage user access control in
vRealize Operations Manager so that you can ensure the security of your objects. Your company just hired a
new person, and you must create a user account and assign a role to the account so that the new user has
permission to access specic content and objects in vRealize Operations Manager.
In this scenario you will learn how to create user accounts and roles, and assign roles to the user accounts to
specify access privileges to views and objects. You will then demonstrate the intended behavior of the
permissions on these accounts.
You will create a new user account, named Tom User, and a new role that grants administrative access to
objects in the vRealize Operations Clusters. You will apply the new role to the user account.
Finally, you will import a user account from an external LDAP user database that resides on another
machine to vRealize Operations Manager, and assign a role to the imported user account to congure the
user's privileges.
Prerequisites
Verify that the following conditions are met:
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vRealize Operations Manager is installed and operating properly, and contains objects such as clusters,
hosts, and virtual machines.
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One or more user groups are dened.
Procedure
1 Create a New Role on page 14
You use roles to manage access control for user accounts in vRealize Operations Manager.
2 Create a User Account on page 15
As an administrator you assign a unique user account to each user so that they can use
vRealize Operations Manager. While you set up the user account, you assign the privileges that
determine what activities the user can perform in the environment, and upon what objects.
3 Import a User Account and Assign Permissions on page 16
You can import user accounts from external sources, such as an LDAP database on another machine,
or a single sign-on server, so that you can give permission to those users to access certain features and
objects in vRealize Operations Manager.
What to do next
Create a new role.
Create a New Role
You use roles to manage access control for user accounts in vRealize Operations Manager.
In this procedure, you will add a new role and assign administrative permissions to the role.
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