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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
6 Click Subjects to select the object type that applies to the view.
a From the drop-down menu, select Host System.
The Distribution view is visible at the object containers of the subjects that you specify during the
view conguration.
7 Click Data and in the lter text box enter Total Number of VMs.
8 Select Summary > Total Number of VMs and double-click to add the metric.
9 Retain the default metric congurations and click Save.
Run a vRealize Operations Manager View
To verify the view and capture a snapshot of information at any point, you run the view for a specic object.
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.
Procedure
1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click the Environment icon.
2 Navigate to a vCenter Server instance and click the Details tab.
All listed views are applicable for the vCenter Server instance.
3 From the All Filters drop-down menu on the left, select Type > Distribution.
You lter the views list to show only distribution type views.
4 Navigate to and click the Virtual Machines Distribution view.
The boom pane shows the distribution view with information about this vCenter Server. Each slice
represents a host and the numbers on the far left show the number of virtual machines.
Export a vRealize Operations Manager View
To use a view in another vRealize Operations Manager, you export a content denition XML le.
If the exported view contains custom created metrics, such as what-if, supermetrics, or custom adapter
metrics, you must recreate them in the new environment.
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.
Procedure
1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click the Content icon and click Views.
2 In the list of views, navigate to and click the Virtual Machines Distribution view .
3 Select All Actions > Export view.
4 Select a location on your local system to save the XML le and click Save.
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