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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
recommendation 79
symptom 79
compliance for vSphere 6.0 objects 73
compliance of vSphere 6.0 objects 74
compliance risk profiles 72
configure dashboard navigation 30
configure policy settings to analyze and report on
vSphere objects 90
configuring users 9
create dashboard 28, 29
create report 40
create view 37
create a policy to meet vSphere operational
needs 88
create dashboard to view disk usage of
datastore objects 98
create new group type for policy 94
create new object group for policy 94
create new policy and select base policies 95
custom object groups 21
custom policies 83
custom groups 22
customize, icons 110
customize how resources behave 45
customized content 133
D
dashboard
configure 30
create 28, 29
definition 32
navigation 30, 31
widgets 32
dashboard command operations 142
dashboards 27, 58
data retention 126
default content, resetting 73
default policy 83
disable quiescing 135
download report 42
E
edit, global settings 126
email, notification 71
enable policy disk space attributes for datastore
objects 96
End Point Operations Management 116
Endpoint Operations Manager, agent log
files 123
environment overview, application groups 24
export, super metric 109
export view 38
external users 10
external sources for users 10
external user sources 13
F
fault symptom, alert 60
file command operations 145
filter, outbound alerts 70
formulate, super metric 105
G
global settings
edit 126
list 127
glossary 7
groups 21, 54, 80
H
hierarchy, objects 46
HTTP service, remote monitoring 116, 117
I
ICMP service, remote monitoring 116, 120
icons
customize 110
object type 110
import, super metric 109
import view 39
intended audience 7
L
local users 10
log file, outbound alert plug-in 66
Log File plug-in 62
log files, Endpoint Operations Manager
agent 123
logging
agent log files 123
configure 123
configure agent log name 124
configure logging level 124
configure agent location name 124
configure debug level 125
redirect system messages 124
logs 131
M
maintain 7
manage 7
manage user accounts 10
manual backup procedure stalls 139
message event symptom, alert 60
metric event symptom, alert 61
metric symptom, alert 59
monitor 7
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