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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
7 To enable the critical, immediate, and warning symptom denitions for the space use on datastore
objects, click Actions, and click Select All, then set the thresholds.
Table 3‑5. Symptom Definitions Threshold Settings
Selection Setting
Datastore space use reaching critical limit >90
Datastore space use reaching immediate limit >85
Datastore space use reaching warning limit >80
What to do next
Apply your policy to your Datastore objects.
Apply Your Datastore Policy to Your Datastore Objects Group
Apply the policy to your new group of Datastore objects to have vRealize Operations Manager monitor
them to ensure that the disk space levels of these objects adhere to the seings in your policies to support
the service level agreements and business priorities that are established for your environment.
In this step, you apply your new policy to production Datastore objects so that
vRealize Operations Manager monitors them to ensure adequate disk space levels of these objects.
Prerequisites
Override the alert and symptom denitions for Datastore objects. See “Override Alert and Symptom
Denitions for Datastore Objects,” on page 97.
Procedure
1 In the policy workspace, click Apply Policy to Groups, and select the new object group that you created
for your Datastore objects.
2 Click Save to save your new policy seings.
vRealize Operations Manager uses the seings in your new policy to display the disk use for your Datastore
objects in dashboards, views, and reports, and to enforce the service levels during data collections
What to do next
Create a new dashboard to view the disk use of your Datastore objects.
Create a Dashboard for Disk Use of Your Datastore Objects
Create a dashboard so that you can monitor the disk use of your Datastore objects, and be alerted to any
potential problems.
In this step, you create a new dashboard, add widgets to your new dashboard, and congure the widgets so
that you can monitor your production datastore objects.
Prerequisites
Apply the policy to your new group of Datastore objects. See “Apply Your Datastore Policy to Your
Datastore Objects Group,” on page 98.
Procedure
1 Click Home.
2 Click Actions > Create a Dashboard.
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