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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
User Scenario: Create and Configure Dashboards and Widgets
As a virtual infrastructure administrator, you monitor your vCenter Server environment to detect
problematic resources. You must identify the problems and take action.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have the necessary access rights to perform this task. Your vRealize Operations Manager
administrator can tell you which actions you can perform.
You will create a dashboard to monitor the overview status of vCenter Server instance objects. You will
create another dashboard to view detailed information about the objects. You will link the widgets on the
two dashboards and create a way to link the widgets from one dashboard to the other.
Procedure
1 Create a Dashboard to View Object Status on page 28
To view the status of all objects of a vRealize Operations Manager instance, create a dashboard.
2 Create a Detailed Object Status Dashboard on page 29
To see the issues that might cause problems for an object in a vRealize Operations Manager instance,
create a dashboard.
3 Congure Dashboard Navigation on page 30
To link the widgets from one dashboard to another, you create dashboard navigations.
4 Work with Dashboard Navigations on page 31
To verify that the dashboard navigation works as expected, you must test it.
Create a Dashboard to View Object Status
To view the status of all objects of a vRealize Operations Manager instance, create a dashboard.
Each widget in a dashboard has a specic conguration. For more information about the widgets, see
“Widget Denitions List,” on page 32.
Procedure
1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click the Content icon and click Dashboards.
2 Click the Create Dashboard icon to create and congure a dashboard.
Option Description
Dashboard name
Enter Environment Health.
Dashboard default
Select whether this dashboard is the default for this
vRealize Operations Manager instance.
3 Click Widget List.
4 To locate the Environment Overview widget, use the Filter option in the widgets list.
5 Select the Environment Overview widget and drag it to the right panel.
The widget is added to the dashboard.
6 In the upper-right corner of the widget, click the pencil icon and congure the widget.
Option Action
Widget title
Retain the default.
Refresh Content
Select On. The widget refreshes its data depending on the refresh interval.
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