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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
Operational Policies
Determine how to have vRealize Operations Manager monitor your objects, and how to notify you about
problems that occur with those objects.
vRealize Operations Manager Administrators assign policies to object groups and applications to support
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and business priorities. When you use policies with object groups, you
ensure that the rules dened in the policies are quickly put into eect for the objects in your environment.
With policies, you can:
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Enable and disable alerts.
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Control data collections by persisting or not persisting metrics on the objects in your environment.
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Congure the product analytics and thresholds.
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Monitor objects and applications at dierent service levels.
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Prioritize policies so that the most important rules override the defaults.
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Understand the rules that aect the analytics.
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Understand which policies apply to object groups.
vRealize Operations Manager includes a library of built-in active policies that are already dened for your
use. vRealize Operations Manager applies these policies in priority order.
Create Operational Policies (hp://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid2296383276001?
bctid=ref:video_create_policies_vrom)
When you apply a policy to an object group, vRealize Operations Manager collects data from the objects in
the object group based on the thresholds, metrics, super metrics, aributes, properties, alert denitions, and
problem denitions that are enabled in the policy.
The following examples of policies might exist for a typical IT environment.
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Maintenance: Optimized for ongoing monitoring, with no thresholds or alerts.
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Critical Production: Production environment ready, optimized for performance with sensitive alerting.
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Important Production: Production environment ready, optimized for performance with medium
alerting.
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Batch Workloads: Optimized to process jobs.
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Test, Staging, and QA: Less critical seings, fewer alerts.
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Development: Less critical seings, no alerts.
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Low Priority: Ensures ecient use of resources.
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Default Policy: Default system seings.
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