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Customizing How
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Congure the resources that determine the behavior of the objects in your vRealize Operations Manager
environment.
Use alert and symptom denitions with actionable recommendations to generate alerts that keep you aware
of problems that occur on your objects. Use and customize operational policies to determine how
vRealize Operations Manager analyzes your objects and displays information about them, so that you are
notied when problems occur on those objects. Use super metrics, which combine metrics into formulas, to
collect combinations of data from your objects.
To identify objects and adapter types, customize icons. Add objects, and metadata about them, to manage
those objects when an adapter instance does not support the discovery of a particular object type. Congure
the global seings, which apply to all users, such as data retention and system timeout.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Dening Alerts in vRealize Operations Manager,” on page 45
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“Dening Compliance Standards,” on page 72
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“Operational Policies,” on page 80
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“Managing and Administering Policies for vRealize Operations Manager,” on page 81
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“Super Metrics in vRealize Operations Manager,” on page 103
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“Customizing Icons,” on page 110
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“Managing Objects in Your Environment,” on page 111
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“Conguring Object Relationships,” on page 115
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“Customizing How Endpoint Operations Management Monitors Operating Systems,” on page 116
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“Modifying Global Seings,” on page 126
Defining Alerts in vRealize Operations Manager
An alert denition comprises one or more symptom denitions, and the alert denition is associated with a
set of recommendations and actions that help you resolve the problem. Alert denitions include triggering
symptom denitions and actionable recommendations. You create the alert denitions so that the generated
alerts tell you about problems in the monitored environment. You can then respond to the alerts with
eective solutions that are provided in the recommendations.
Predened alerts are provided in vRealize Operations Manager as part of your congured adapters. You can
add or modify alert denitions to reect the needs of your environment.
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