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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
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Action that makes a change on the target object.
When you dene an alert, provide as many relevant action recommendations as possible. If more than one
recommendation is available, arrange them in priority order so that the solution with the lowest eect and
highest eectiveness is listed rst. If no action recommendation is available, add text recommendations. Be
as precise as possible when describing what the administrator should do to x the alert.
Creating and Managing vRealize Operations Manager Alert Notifications
When alerts are generated in vRealize Operations Manager, they appear in the alert details and object
details, but you can also congure vRealize Operations Manager to send your alerts to outside applications
using one or more outbound alert options.
You congure notication options to specify which alerts are sent out for the Standard Email, REST, SNMP,
and Log File outbound alert plug-ins. For the other plug-in types, all the alerts are sent when the target
outbound alert plug-in is enabled.
The most common outbound alert plug-in is the Standard Email plug-in. You congure the Standard Email
plug-in to send notications to one or more users when an alert is generated that meets the criteria you
specify in the notication seings.
List of Outbound Plug-Ins in vRealize Operations Manager
vRealize Operations Manager provides outbound plug-ins. This list includes the name of the plug-in and
whether you can lter the outbound data based on your notication seings.
If the plug-in supports conguring notication rules, then you can lter the messages before they are sent to
the target system. If the plug-in does not support notications, all messages are sent to the target system,
and you can process them in that application.
If you installed other solutions that include other plug-in options, they appear as a plug-in option with the
other plug-ins.
Messages and alerts are sent only when the plug-in is enabled.
Table 3‑2. Notification Support for Outbound Plug-Ins
Outbound Plug-In Configure Notification Rules
Automated Action Plug-in No
The Automated Action plug-in is enabled by default. If automated actions stop working,
check the Automated Action plug-in and enable it if necessary. If you edit the Automated
Action plug-in, you only need to provide the instance name.
Log File Plug-In Yes
To lter the log le alerts, you can either congure the le named TextFilter.xml or
congure the notication rules.
Smarts SAM Notication
Plug-In
No
REST Notication Plug-In Yes
Network Share Plug-In No
Standard Email Plug-In Yes
SNMP Trap Plug-In Yes
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