6.3
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
Index
A
access control
privileges 10
user scenario create role and user account 14
user scenario import user account 16
actions
alert definitions 61
overview list 61
adapters, icons 110
administer 7
administration
admin password 132
change admin password 131
policies 81
agents
configure logging 123
configure logging level 124
log files 123
logging 123
manage plug-ins 122
managing plug-ins 122
unsynchronized 123
alert
compliance 72
compliance standard 78
outbound alert plug-in 63, 64, 66, 68
outbound settings plug-ins 62
recommendations 61
alert symptom
fault 60
message event 60
metric 59
metric event 61
property 60
alert and symptom definitions, overwriting 73
alert definition
best practices 47
hierarchy 46
negative symptom 48
object hierarchy 46
alert definitions
alert 61
preserve customized content 133
alerts, for compliance 73
application, adding 24
application groups
environment overview 24
managing 24
apply policy to datastore objects 98
apply policy to vSphere object groups 91
associate super metric, object type 107
attribute command operations 144
audit
system 20
system component 21
use cases 20
user activity 20
user permissions 20
authentication sources, single sign-on 17
Automated Action plug-in 62
B
backup, with vSphere data protection 135
backup and restore
check the restore 137
general guidelines 134
backward compatibility for vCenter Server
Users 12
base settings 83
best practices
alert definition 47
recommendation 47
symptom 47
C
certificates 131
change IP address after a restore job 138
command operations
attribute 144
dashboard 142
file 145
report 144
reskind 144
supermetric 143
template 142
view 145
compliance, alerts 73
compliance standard
alert 78
compliance subtype 78
negated symptom 79
VMware, Inc. 147