6.3
Table Of Contents
- vRealize Operations Definitions for Metrics, Properties, and Alerts
- Contents
- About vRealize Operations Manager Reference for Metrics, Properties, and Alerts
- Metric Definitions in vRealize Operations Manager
- Property Definitions in vRealize Operations Manager
- Alert Definitions in vRealize Operations Manager
- Cluster Compute Resource Alert Definitions
- Host System Alert Definitions
- vSphere Distributed Port Group
- Virtual Machine Alert Definitions
- vSphere Distributed Switch Alert Definitions
- vCenter Server Alert Definitions
- Datastore Alert Definitions
- Data Center Alert Definitions
- Custom Data Center Alert Definitions
- Index
Property Definitions in vRealize
Operations Manager 2
Properties are aributes of objects in the vRealize Operations Manager environment. You use properties in
symptom denitions. You can also use properties in dashboards, views, and reports.
vRealize Operations Manager uses adapters to collect properties for target objects in your environment.
Property denitions for all objects connected through the vCenter adapter are provided. The properties
collected depend on the objects in your environment.
You can add symptoms based on properties to an alert denition so that you are notied if a change occurs
to properties on your monitored objects. For example, disk space is a hardware property of a virtual
machine. You can use disk space to dene a symptom that warns you when the value falls below a certain
numeric value. See the vRealize Operations Manager User Guide.
vRealize Operations Manager generates Object Type Classication and Subclassication properties for every
object. You can use object type classication properties to identify whether an object is an adapter instance,
custom group, application, tier, or a general object with property values ADAPTER_INSTANCE, GROUP,
BUSINESS_SERVICE, TIER, or GENERAL, respectively.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Properties for vCenter Server Components,” on page 111
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“Self-Monitoring Properties for vRealize Operations Manager,” on page 124
Properties for vCenter Server Components
The VMware vSphere solution is installed with vRealize Operations Managerand includes the vCenter
adapter. vRealize Operations Manager uses the vCenter adapter to collect properties for objects in the
vCenter Server system.
vCenter Server components are listed in the describe.xml le for the vCenter adapter. The following
example shows the runtime property memoryCap or Memory Capacity for the virtual machine in the
describe.xml.
<ResourceGroup instanced="false" key="runtime" nameKey="5300" validation="">
<ResourceAttribute key="memoryCap" nameKey="1780" dashboardOrder="200" dataType="float"
defaultMonitored="true" isDiscrete="false" isRate="false" maxVal=""
minVal="" isProperty="true" unit="kb"/>
</ResourceGroup>
The ResourceAttribute element includes the name of the property that appears in the UI and is documented
as a Property Key. isProperty = "true" indicates that ResourceAttribute is a property.
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