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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
Add an SNMP Trap Plug-In for vRealize Operations Manager Outbound Alerts
You add an SNMP Trap plug-in when you want to congure vRealize Operations Manager to log alerts on
an existing SNMP Trap server in your environment.
All ltering of the alerts that are sent as SNMP traps must occur on the destination host. You cannot lter
the alerts based on notication seings in vRealize Operations Manager.
Prerequisites
Ensure that you have an SNMP Trap server congured in your environment, and that you know the IP
address or host name, port number, and community that it uses.
Procedure
1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click the Administration icon.
2 Click Outbound and click the plus sign to add a plug-in.
3 From the Plug-In Type drop-down menu, select SNMP Trap.
The dialog box expands to include your SNMP trap seings.
4 Type an Instance Name.
5 Congure the SNMP trap seings appropriate to your environment.
Option Description
Destination Host
IP address or fully qualied domain name of the SNMP management
system to which you are sending alerts.
Port
Port used to connect to the SNMP management system. Default port is 162.
Community
Text string that allows access to the statistics. SNMP Community strings
are used only by devices that support SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c protocol.
6 Click Save.
7 To start the outbound alert service for this plug-in, select the instance in the list and click Enable on the
toolbar.
This instance of the SNMP Trap plug-in is congured and running.
What to do next
When the plug-in is started, the alerts are sent to the SNMP server. Verify that the server receives the SNMP
traps.
Add a Smarts Service Assurance Manager Notification Plug-In for vRealize Operations Manager
Outbound Alerts
You add a Smarts SAM Notication plug-in when you want to congure vRealize Operations Manager to
send alert notications to EMC Smarts Server Assurance Manager.
This outbound alert option is useful when you manage the same objects in Server Assurance Manager and
in vRealize Operations Manager, and you added the EMC Smarts management pack and congured the
solution in vRealize Operations Manager. Although you cannot lter the alerts sent to Service Assurance
Manager in vRealize Operations Manager, you can congure the Smarts plug-in to send the alerts to the
Smarts Open Integration server. You then congure the Open Integration server to lter the alerts from
vRealize Operations Manager, and send only those that pass the lter test to the Smarts Service Assurance
Manager service.
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