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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
Option Action
Self Provider
Select On.
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On. You dene the objects for which data appears in the widget.
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O. You congure other widgets to provide the objects to the widget
using the dashboard widget interactions options.
Refresh interval value
Retain the default
7 Click the tab.
8 In the Filter text box, enter vCenter Server.
The lter limits the list to only vCenter Server instances.
9 In the objects list, select a vCenter Server instance to monitor.
The Selected Object text eld shows the selected object.
10 Click Save.
11 In the widgets list, select the Health Chart widget and drag it to the left panel to add it to the
dashboard.
12 Click Widget Interactions.
13 From the Selected Object(s) drop-down menu next to Health Chart, select Environment Overview and
click Apply Interactions.
The Health Chart widget updates its information based on the object selected in the Environment
Overview widget.
14 Click Save.
What to do next
Create a dashboard that shows the detailed status for a selected object. See “Create a Detailed Object Status
Dashboard,” on page 29.
Create a Detailed Object Status Dashboard
To see the issues that might cause problems for an object in a vRealize Operations Manager instance, create a
dashboard.
Each widget has a specic conguration. For more information about the widgets, see “Widget Denitions
List,” on page 32. For more information about widget interactions, see “Widget Interactions,” on page 34.
Prerequisites
Create a dashboard that shows the objects and their health status for a vCenter Server. See “Create a
Dashboard to View Object Status,” on page 28.
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 a dashboard and congure the dashboard.
Option Action
Dashboard name
Enter Detailed Object Status.
Dashboard default
Select whether this dashboard is the default for this
vRealize Operations Manager instance.
3 Click Widget List.
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