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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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Risk Prole 2 enforces a medium level of security for your environment, and includes fewer symptoms
than Risk Prole 1. This prole is disabled by default.
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Risk Prole 3 enforces a low level of security, and includes fewer symptoms than Risk Prole 2. This
prole is disabled by default.
All the compliance standards in vRealize Operations Manager, including any standards that you dene, are
based on alert denitions. The generated alerts and symptoms appear as violations to the compliance
standards on the Analysis > Compliance tab for a selected object.
You can nd the vSphere Hardening Guides at hp://www.vmware.com/security/hardening-guides.html.
vRealize Operations Manager Compliance for vSphere 6.0 Objects
To ensure compliance of your vSphere 6.0 and 5.5 objects, vRealize Operations Manager includes
compliance alerts for VMware vSphere Hardening Guide versions 6.0 and 5.5. These hardening guide alerts are
now based on object type.
When you customize a policy to enable the vSphere Hardening Guide alerts, you can enable vSphere 6.0 and
5.5 alerts for the following object types and versions:
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ESXi host is violating vSphere Hardening Guide (5.5 and 6.0)
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vCenter Server is violating vSphere Hardening Guide (6.0)
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Virtual machine is violating Risk Prole 1 in vSphere Hardening Guide (5.5 and 6.0)
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Virtual machine is violating Risk Prole 2 in vSphere Hardening Guide (5.5 and 6.0)
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Virtual machine is violating Risk Prole 3 in vSphere Hardening Guide (5.5 and 6.0)
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vSphere Distributed Port Group is violating vSphere Hardening Guide (6.0)
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vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch is violating vSphere Hardening Guide (6.0)
By default, the alert named Virtual machine is violating Risk Profile 1 is the only active alert among
the risk proles. You can congure this prole later, and choose one of the other risk proles.
To determine whether an alert triggered against vSphere Hardening Guide 6.0 or 5.5, you must examine the
underlying symptoms. For example, for the alert named ESXi Host is violating vSphere Hardening Guide,
the following underlying symptoms for the alert include:
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ESXi.set-account-lockout - The count failed login aempts before the account is locked out exceeded
maximum (vSphere Hardening Guide 6.0)
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DCUI service is running (vSphere Hardening Guide 5.5)
You can nd the vSphere Hardening Guides at hp://www.vmware.com/security/hardening-guides.html.
Reset Default Content to Ensure Current Compliance Standards for vSphere 6.0
and 5.5 Objects
Alert denitions and symptom denitions now include the compliance standards for both vSphere 6.0 and
5.5. When you upgrade your current version of vRealize Operations Manager, you must select the option to
overwrite alert denitions and symptom denitions.
If you do not overwrite your alert denitions and symptom denitions with the new content provided with
this release, some compliance rules will include the new alert and symptom denitions, while other
compliance rules will continue to use outdated alert and symptom denitions.
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