6.3

Create a Policy for the Accounting Alert
To congure how vRealize Operations Manager evaluates the accounting alert denition in your
environment, you congure a policy that determines behavior so that you can apply the policy to an object
group. The policy limits the application of the alert denition to only the members of the selected object
group.
When an alert denition is created, it is added to the default policy and enabled, ensuring that any alert
denitions that you create are active in your environment. This alert denition is intended to meet the needs
of the accounting department, so you disable it in the default policy and create a new policy to govern how
the alert denition is evaluated in your environment, including which accounting virtual machines and
related hosts to monitor.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you completed the alert denition for this scenario. See “Add Recommendations to the Alert
Denition,” on page 53.
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Verify that you created a group of objects that you use to manage you accounting objects. See “Create a
Custom Accounting Department Group,” on page 54.
Procedure
1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click the Administration icon.
2 Click Policies and click Policy Library.
3 Click Add New Policy.
4 Type a name similar to Accounting Objects Alerts Policy and provide a useful description similar to
the following example.
This policy is configured to generate alerts when
Accounting VMs and Hosts group objects are above trended
CPU or memory usage.
5 Click Select Base Policies and select Default Policy from the Start with drop-down menu.
6 On the left, click Customize Alert / Symptom  and disable all the alert denitions except the
new Acct VM CPU early warning alert.
a In the Alert Denitions area, click Actions and select Select All.
The alerts on the current page are selected.
b Click Actions and select Disable.
The alerts indicate Disabled in the State column.
c Repeat the process on each page of the alerts list.
d Select Acct VM CPU early warning in the list, click Actions and select Enable.
The Acct VM CPU early warning alert is now enabled.
7 On the left, click Apply Policy to Groups and select Accounting VMs and Hosts.
8 Click Save.
You created a policy where the accounting alert denition exists in a custom policy that is applied only to
the virtual machines and hosts for the accounting department.
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