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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
Dening Compliance Standards 72
vRealize Operations Manager Compliance for vSphere 6.0 Objects 73
User Scenario: Ensure Compliance of Your vSphere 6.0 Objects 74
User Scenario: Dene a Compliance Standard for Custom Standards 78
Operational Policies 80
Managing and Administering Policies for vRealize Operations Manager 81
Policy Decisions and Objectives 82
Default Policy in vRealize Operations Manager 83
Custom Policies 83
Policies Provided with vRealize Operations Manager 84
User Scenario: Create a Custom Operational Policy for a vSphere Production Environment 86
User Scenario: Create an Operational Policy for Production vCenter Server Datastore Objects 93
Using the Monitoring Policy Workspace to Create and Modify Operational Policies 101
Policy Workspace in vRealize Operations Manager 102
Super Metrics in vRealize Operations Manager 103
Super Metric Functions 103
User Scenario: Formulate and Apply Your Super Metric 105
Building a Super Metric Formula 108
Exporting a Super Metric 109
Importing a Super Metric 109
Customizing Icons 110
Customize an Object Type Icon 110
Customize an Adapter Type Icon 110
Managing Objects in Your Environment 111
Adding an Object to Your Environment 111
Creating and Assigning Tags 112
Conguring Object Relationships 115
Adding an Object Relationship 115
Customizing How Endpoint Operations Management Monitors Operating Systems 116
Conguring Remote Monitoring 116
Working with Agent Plug-ins 122
Conguring Agent Logging 123
Modifying Global Seings 126
List of Global Seings 127
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Maintaining and Expanding vRealize Operations Manager 129
vRealize Operations Manager Cluster and Node Maintenance 129
vRealize Operations Manager Logging 131
vRealize Operations Manager Passwords and Certicates 131
Change the vRealize Operations Manager Administrator Password 131
Reset the vRealize Operations Manager Administrator Password on vApp or Linux Clusters 132
Reset the vRealize Operations Manager Administrator Password on Windows Clusters 132
Generate a vRealize Operations Manager Passphrase 132
How To Preserve Customized Content 133
Backup and Restore 134
Backing Up and Restoring with vSphere Data Protection 134
Checking the Restore of vRealize Operations Manager Systems 137
Change the IP Address of Nodes After Restoring a Cluster on a Remote Host 138
Manual Backup Procedure Appears to Stall 139
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