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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
User Scenario: Ensure Compliance of Your vSphere 6.0 Objects
As the virtual infrastructure administrator for your company, you must ensure that your vSphere 6.0 objects
comply with the compliance rules in the vSphere Hardening Guide. You use the compliance alerts in
vRealize Operations Manager to monitor your objects for violations to your compliance standards. When a
compliance alert triggers on your vCenter Server instance, hosts, virtual machines, distributed port groups,
or distributed switches, you investigate the compliance violation. You must and resolve the violation so that
the violated object continues to meet industry security standards.
You manage and monitor the security of your production, test, and development environments. Your objects
consist of multiple vCenter Server instances, with hosts, virtual machines, distributed port groups, and
distributed switches in each instance.
Your CIO requires that you run SSH on all vCenter Server instances and host machines in your production
and test environments. You monitor all hosts to ensure that they comply with the SSH requirement. You
produce a compliance report each week to prove to your manager and the compliance team that your
objects comply with the implemented security standards.
To enforce and report on the compliance of your vSphere 6.0 objects, you enable the compliance rules in the
vSphere Hardening Guide. Then, you enable the appropriate alerts, and apply a risk prole to your virtual
machines. After vRealize Operations Manager collects the compliance data from your objects, you resolve
any rule violations that occurred, and create a report of the compliance results for your manager and the
compliance team.
The Alert denitions provided with vRealize Operations Manager are based on object types instead of the
specic versions of the hardening guides. To use these alerts, you no longer must create a custom group and
apply the policy to that group.
Some alert denitions are common between vSphere 6.0 and vSphere 5.5 objects.
vRealize Operations Manager checks vSphere 6.0 symptoms against 6.0 objects, 5.5 symptoms against 5.5
objects, and a combination of 6.0 and 5.5 symptoms against both versions of the objects.
Prerequisites
Verify that the current version of vRealize Operations Manager is installed and running.
Procedure
1 In vRealize Operations Manager, enable the compliance rules.
a Click Administration, and click Solutions.
b Click the VMware vSphere solution, and click .
c In the Manage Solution dialog box, click Monitoring Goals.
d Under Enable vSphere Hardening Guide Alerts, click Yes and click Save.
e When vRealize Operations Manager reports that the default policy is congured to collect
compliance data on your objects, click OK and click Close.
2 Enable the compliance alert denitions in the default policy.
a Click Policies > Policy Library.
b Click the Default Policy, and click Edit Selected Policy.
c In the Edit Monitoring Policy workspace on the left, click Alert / Symptom .
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