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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
OPS-CLI Command-Line Tool 5
The OPS-CLI tool is a Java application that you can use to manipulate the vRealize Operations Manager
database. It replaces the VCOPS-CLI andDBCLI tools.
The product includes the executable le in the tools directory or in <VCOPS_BASE>/tools/opscli/.
Operating System File Name
Linux
ops-cli.sh
Windows
ops-cli.bat
Python
ops-cli.py
All OPS-CLI commands use the -h parameter for interactive and localized help.
When you add the control command to the post_install.sh script, it triggers the redescribe process after
an adapter is installed or upgraded.
control -h | redescribe --force
Supported Operations
The OPS-CLI tool supports the following database operations.
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dashboard Command Operations on page 142
You use the dashboard command to import, export, share, unshare, delete, reorder, show, hide, and set
the default summary for dashboards.
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template Command Operations on page 142
You use the template command to import, export, share, unshare, delete, and reorder templates.
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supermetric Command Operations on page 143
You use the supermetric command to import, export, congure, and delete super metrics.
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aribute Command Operations on page 144
You use the attribute command to congure properties of a specic metric in one or more packages.
The metric is the object aribute.
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reskind Command Operations for Object Types on page 144
You use the reskind command to congure the default seings in your object type as dened by the
ResourceKind model element. The command sets the default aribute or supermetric package, enables
or disables dynamic thresholds, and enables or disables early warning smart alerts.
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report Command Operations on page 144
You use the report command to import, export, congure, and delete super metrics.
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