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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
generate 42
introduction 40
owner 39
schedule 42
template
delete 42
edit 42
report command operations 144
reports 27
reset default content 73
Reset out-of-the-box content 133
reskind 144
reskind command operations 144
resource interaction mode, widget 35
resource behavior customize 45
ResourceKind 144
REST
notification 72
outbound alert plug-in 64
REST Notification plug-in 62
restore, with vSphere data protection 136
restore a system to a remote location 138
retention, data 126
review super metric, troubleshooting 108
risk profiles for compliance 72
roles 10, 13
run view 38
S
scenarios
create policy for vSphere production
environment 86
adding an application 24
create an operational policy for production
datastore objects 93
object groups 22
user access control create role and user
account 14
user access control import user account 16
schedule report 42
search for application 24
security,passphrase 132
settings, global 126
single sign-on 17
single sign-on source, edit a source 19
Smarts SAM Notification plug-in 62
Smarts Service Assurance Manager, outbound
alert plug-in 68
SMTP, outbound alert plug-in 63
SNMP trap, outbound alert plug-in 68
SNMP Trap plug-in 62
sources for external users 13
standard email, outbound alert plug-in 63
Standard Email plug-in 62
super metric
export 109
formulate 105
import 109
overview 103
visualize 106
super metric functions 103
super metrics
adding 106
formulas 108
preparing to create 105
supermetric command operations 143
symptom
best practices 47
compliance standard 79
fault 60
message event 60
metric 59
metric event 61
negated 48
property 60
symptom definitions, preserve customized
content 133
symptoms 51, 52
system audit report 20
system component audit 21
system messages, redirect to agent log 124
T
tags, objects 112
TCP service, remote monitoring 116, 121
template command operations 142
tool, ops-cli 141
troubleshooting, review super metric 108
U
Unsynchronized Agents group 123
upgrade, Reset out-of-the-box content 133
upgrades, impact on policies 81
use cases, auditing 20
user access control, privileges 10
user preferences 9
user scenario
create a user account 15
dashboard 28
dashboard navigation 28
reports 40
views 37
vSphere 6.0 compliance 74
widget 28
user scenarios
access control 14
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