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
N
negated symptom, compliance standard 79
negative symptom 48
network share, outbound report plug-in 67
Network Share plug-in 62
node,passphrase 132
nodes 129
notification
email 71
outbound alert 62, 71, 72
REST 72
notifications
outbound alert plug-ins 63, 64, 66, 68
outbound alerts 70
outbound plug-ins 62
O
object groups 21, 22, 80
object relationships 115
object tags
adding 114
predefined 113
object type
associate super metric 107
icons 110
objects
adding 111
assigning tags 112
configuring relationships 115
finding with tags 114
managing 111
parent-child relationships 115
operations for object type 144
ops-cli tool 141
outbound, settings 62
outbound alert
notification 62, 71, 72
settings 63, 64, 66, 68
outbound alert plug-in
log file 66
REST plug-in 64
Smarts Service Assurance Manager 68
SMTP 63
SNMP trap 68
standard email 63
outbound alerts
filter 70
notifications 70
outbound reports plug-in, network share 67
override policy alert and symptom definitions for
datastore objects 97
override policy analysis settings for datastore
objects 96
overview, super metric 103
overwriting alert and symptom definitions 73
owner
view 39
report 39
P
passphrase 132
passwords
admin 132
administrator account 131
permissions 20
plug-in, outbound alert 62–64, 66, 68
plug-ins
configure loading 122
excluding 122
including 122
synchronize with agent 123
policies
apply policy to vSphere object groups 91
custom 83
default 83
impact of upgrades 81
managing 81
objectives 82
privileges 81
responsibilities 82
user scenario to create an operational policy
for production datastore objects 93
user scenario to create policy for vSphere
production environment 86
workspace 102
policies provided 84
policies determine vSphere operational
requirements 87
policies,workspace 101
preserve customized content 133
privileges 10, 13
profiles for compliance risk 72
property symptom, alert 60
R
recommendation
best practices 47
compliance standard 79
recommendations
alerts 61
preserve customized content 133
remote monitoring
HTTP service 116, 117
ICMP service 116, 120
TCP service 116, 121
report
create 40
download 42
Index
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