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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
Add a Resource Interaction XML File
A resource interaction le is a custom set of metrics that you want to display in widgets that support the
option. You can congure one or more les that dene dierent sets of metrics for particular object types so
that the supported widgets are populated based the congured metrics and selected object type.
The following widgets support the resource interaction mode:
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Metric Chart
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Property List
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Rolling View Chart
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Scoreboard
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Sparkline Chart
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Topology Graph
To use the metric conguration, which displays a set of metrics that you dened in an XML le, the
dashboard and widget conguration must meet the following criteria:
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The dashboard Widget Interaction options are congured so that another widget provides objects to
the target widget. For example, an Object List widget provides the object interaction to a chart widget.
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The widget Self Provider option is set to .
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The custom XML le in the Metric drop-down menu is in the following directory and
has been imported into the global storage using the import command.
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vApp or Linux. The XML le is in /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/tools/opscli.
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Windows. The XML le is in C:\vmware\vcenter-operations\vmware-vcops\tools\opscli.
If you add an XML le and later modify it, the changes might not take eect.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have the necessary permissions to access the installed les for
vRealize Operations Manager and add les.
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Create a new les based on the existing examples. Examples are available in the following location:
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vApp or Linux. The XML le is in /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/tomcat-web-app/webapps/vcops-web-
ent/WEB-INF/classes/resources/reskndmetrics.
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Windows. The XML le is in C:\vmware\vcenter-operations\vmware-vcops\tomcat-web-
app\webapps\vcops-web-ent\WEB-INF\classes\resources\reskndmetrics.
Procedure
1 Create an XML le that denes the set of metrics.
For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<AdapterKinds>
<AdapterKind adapterKindKey="VMWARE">
<ResourceKind resourceKindKey="HostSystem">
<Metric attrkey="sys:host/vim/vmvisor/slp|resourceMemOverhead_latest" />
<Metric attrkey="cpu|capacity_provisioned" />
<Metric attrkey="mem|host_contention" />
</ResourceKind>
</AdapterKind>
</AdapterKinds>
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