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f From the Metric value drop-down menu, type 1000.
g Click Preview to determine whether objects already match this criteria.
8 Click OK to save your group.
When you save your new dynamic group, the group appears in the Service Level Capacity folder, and
in the list of groups on the Groups tab.
9 Wait ve minutes for vRealize Operations Manager to collect data from the objects in your
environment.
vRealize Operations Manager collects data from the cluster compute resources, host systems, and virtual
machines in your environment, according to the metrics that you dened in the group and the thresholds
dened in the policy that is applied to the group, and displays the results about your objects in dashboards
and views.
What to do next
To monitor the capacity levels for your platinum objects, create a dashboard, and add widgets to the
dashboard. See “Using Dashboards,” on page 27.
Managing Application Groups
An application is a container construct that represents a collection of interdependent hardware and software
components that deliver a specic capability to support your business. vRealize Operations Managerbuilds
an application to determine how your environment is aected when one or more components in an
application experiences problems, and to monitor the overall health and performance of the application.
Object membership in an application is not dynamic. To change the application, you manually modify the
objects in the container.
Reasons to Use Applications
vRealize Operations Manager collects data from components in the application and displays the results in a
summary dashboard for each application with a real-time analysis for any or all of the components. If a
component experiences problems, you can see where in the application the problems arise, and determine
how problems spread to other objects.
User Scenario: Adding an Application
As the system administrator of an online training system, you must monitor components in the Web,
application, and database tiers of your environment that can aect the performance of the system. You build
an application that groups related objects together in each tier. If a problem occurs with one of the objects, it
is reected in the application display and you can open a summary to investigate the source of the problem
further.
In your application, you add the DB-related objects that store data for the training system in a tier, Web-
related objects that run the user interface in a tier, and application-related objects that process the data for
the training system in a tier. The network tier might not be needed. Use this model to develop your
application.
Procedure
1 Click Environment in the left pane.
2 Click the Applications tab and click the plus sign.
3 Click Basic n-tier Web App and click OK.
The Application Management page that appears has two rows. Select objects from the boom row to
populate the tiers in the top row.
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