6.3

Manage Credentials
To congure or recongure credentials that you use to enable an adapter instance, you must provide the
collection conguration seings, for example, user name and password, that are valid on the target system.
You can also modify the connection seings for an existing credential instance.
Where You Find Manage Credentials
In the left pane, click the Administration icon and click Credentials. Click the plus sign to add a new
credential or the pencil to edit the selected credential.
Manage Credentials Options
The Manage Credentials dialog box is used to add new or modies existing adapter credentials. The dialog
box varies depending on the type of adapter and whether you are adding or editing. The following options
describe the basic options. Depending on the solution, the options other than the basic ones vary.
C Any adapter credentials you add are shared with other adapter administrators and
vRealize Operations Manager collector hosts. Other administrators might use these credentials to congure
a new adapter instance or to move an adapter instance to a new host.
Table 7‑4. Manage Credential Add or Edit Options
Option Description
Adapter Type Adapter type for which you are conguring the credentials.
Credential Kind Credentials associated with the adapter. The combination
of adapter and credential type aects the additional
conguration options.
Credential Name Descriptive name by which you are managing the
credentials.
User Name User account credentials that are used in the adapter
conguration to connect vRealize Operations Manager to
the target system.
Password Password for the provided credentials.
Managing Collector Groups
vRealize Operations Manager uses collectors to manage adapter processes such as gathering metrics from
objects. You can select a collector or a collector group when conguring an adapter instance.
If there are remote collectors in your environment, you can create a new collector group, and add remote
collectors to the group. When you assign an adapter to a collector group, the adapter can use any collector in
the group. Use collector groups to achieve adapter resiliency in cases where the collector experiences
network interruption or becomes unavailable. If this occurs, and the collector is part of a group, the total
workload is redistributed among all the collectors in the group, reducing the workload on each collector.
Migrate a vCenter Operations Manager Deployment into this Version
By importing data, an established or production version of vRealize Operations Manager can assume the
monitoring of a vCenter Operations Manager deployment.
You cannot migrate vCenter Operations Manager directly to this version of vRealize Operations Manager.
Instead, you follow a two-step process:
1 Migrate and import vCenter Operations Manager 5.8.x into vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.x as
described in the version 6.0.x documentation.
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