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3 Click the Heat Map tab under the Details tab.
4 Select the tag to use for rst-level grouping of the objects from the Group By drop-down menu.
If a selected object does not have a value for this tag, it appears in a group called Other Groups.
5 Select the tag to use to separate the objects into subgroups from the Then By drop-down menu.
If a selected object does not have a value for this tag, it appears in a subgroup called Other Groups.
6 Select a Mode option.
Option Description
Instance
Track all instances of a metric for an object with a separate rectangle for
each metric.
General
Pick an specic instance of a metric for each object and track only that
metric.
7 If you selected General mode, select the aribute to use to set the size of the rectangle for each resource
in the Size By list and the aribute to use to determine the color of the rectangle for each object in the
Color By list.
Objects that have higher values for the Size By aribute have larger areas in the heat map display. You
can also select xed-size rectangles. The color varies between the colors you set based on the value of
the Color By aribute.
In most cases, the aribute lists include only metrics that vRealize Operations Manager generates. If
you select an object type, the list shows all of the aributes that are dened for that object type.
a To track metrics only for objects of a particular kind, select the object type from the Object Type
drop-down menu.
8 If you selected Instance mode, select an aribute kind from the  Kind list.
The aribute kind determines the color of the rectangle for each object.
9 Congure colors for the heat map.
a Click each of the small blocks under the color bar to set the color for low, middle, and high values.
The bar shows the color range for intermediate values. You can also set the values to match the
high and low end of the color range.
b (Optional) Enter minimum and maximum color values in the Min Value and Max Value text boxes.
If you leave the text boxes blank, vRealize Operations Manager maps the highest and lowest values
for the Color By metric to the end colors. If you set a minimum or maximum value, any metric at or
beyond that value appears in the end color.
10 Click Save to save the conguration.
The custom heat map you created appears in the list of heat maps on the Heat Maps tab.
Find the Best or Worst Performing Objects for a Metric
You can use heat maps to nd the objects with the highest or lowest values for a particular metric.
Prerequisites
If the combination of metrics that you want to compare is not available in the list of dened heat maps, you
must dene a custom heat map rst. See “Create a Custom Heat Map,” on page 50.
Procedure
1 In the left pane, click Environment and select an object from an inventory tree.
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