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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
3 Congure your new dashboard.
a In the Dashboard Conguration pane of the New Dashboard workspace, enter the name
Production Datastores for the new dashboard.
b For Is default, select Yes.
4 Add widgets to your new dashboard.
a In the workspace, click Widget List.
b From the list of widgets, click the Object List widget, and drag it to the right pane.
c Click the Capacity widget, and drag it to the right pane.
d Click the Time Remaining widget, and drag it to the right pane.
e Click the Alert List widget, and drag it to the right pane.
5 Congure the widget interactions.
a In the workspace, click Widget Interactions.
b For the Object List widget interactions, click the drop-down menu for the Selected Objects and
Selected Alerts, and clear the selections.
c For the Alert List widget interaction, click the drop-down and select Object List.
d For the Capacity widget interaction, click the drop-down and select Object List.
e For the Time Remaining widget interaction, click the drop-down and select Object List.
f Click Apply Interactions.
6 Congure the Object List widget.
a On the Object List widget, click the pencil.
b For Refresh Content, select On.
c For Refresh Interval, click the arrows and select 30 seconds.
d For Mode, select Parent.
e For Auto Select First Row, select .
f In the lower pane, click the plus sign to expand the list of tags, expand Production Datastores,
select Production Datastores (n), and click OK.
The objects in your Production Datastores object group appears in the Object List widget.
7 Congure the Capacity widget.
a On the Capacity widget, click the pencil.
b For Refresh Content, select On.
c For Refresh Interval, click the arrows and select 30 seconds.
d For Self Provider, select On.
e For Selected Object, in the Search text box, enter group, and select the Production Datastores group
from the list.
The Production Datastores group appears in the Selected Object text box.
f Click OK.
The Capacity widget displays a score and a graph to indicate the remaining compute objects as a
percentage of the total consumer capacity.
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