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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
What to do next
Generate and download the report to verify the output. See “Generate a Report,” on page 42
Generate a Report
To generate a report, you use the Virtual Machines Report template for a vCenter Server system that shows
information for oversized and stressed virtual machines, and their memory use.
Prerequisites
Create a report template. See “Create a Report Template for Monitoring Virtual Machines,” on page 40.
Procedure
1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click the Environment icon.
2 Navigate to a vCenter Server system.
3 Click the Reports tab and click Report Templates.
The listed report templates are associated with the current object.
4 Navigate to the Virtual Machines Report template and click the Run Template icon.
The report is generated and listed on the Generated Reports tab.
What to do next
Download the generated report and verify the output. See “Download a Report,” on page 42.
Download a Report
To verify that the information appears as expected you download the generated report from the Virtual
Machines Report template .
Prerequisites
Generate a report from the Virtual Machines Report template. See “Generate a Report,” on page 42.
Procedure
1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click the Environment icon.
2 Navigate to the object for which you want to download a report.
3 Click the Reports tab and click Generated Reports.
The listed reports are generated for the current object.
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Click the PDF ( ) and CSV ( ) icon to save the report in the relevant le format.
vRealize Operations Manager saves the report le to the location you selected.
What to do next
Schedule a report generation and set the email options, so your team will receive the report. See “Schedule a
Report,” on page 42.
Schedule a Report
To generate a report on a selected date, time, and recurrence you create a schedule for the Virtual Machines
Report template. You set the email options to send the generated report to your team.
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