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7 Click Show Peer Events.
If other datastores have alerts related to the alert you are currently investigating, seeing when the alerts
for the other datastores were generated can help you determine what resource problems you are
experiencing in your environment.
8 To remove canceled alerts from your timeline, click Select Status and deselect the Canceled check box.
Removing the canceled alerts and symptoms from the timeline clears the view and allows you to focus
on current alerts.
What to do next
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If your evaluation of alert in the timeline provided enough information to indicate that one or more of
the recommendations to resolve the alert are valid, implement the recommendations. See “Run a
Recommendation On a Datastore to Resolve an Alert,” on page 18.
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If you need more information about the aected object, continue your investigation. See “View the
Aected Datastore in Relation to Other Objects,” on page 16.
View the Affected Datastore in Relation to Other Objects
To view the object for which the alert was generated as it relates to other objects, use the topological map on
the Relationships tab in vRealize Operations Manager to visualize the environment.
As a network operations engineer, you view a datastore and the related objects in a map to further your
understanding of the problem, and to determine if implementing the alert recommendations will resolve the
problem that the alert identies.
Prerequisites
Evaluate the alert over time and in comparison to related objects. See “Compare Alerts and Events Over
Time in Response to a Datastore Alert,” on page 15.
Procedure
1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click the Alerts icon.
2 Click the alert name link.
The center pane view changes to display the alert detail tabs.
3 Click the Relationships tab.
The Relationships tab displays the datastore in a map with the related objects. By default, the badge
that this alert aects is selected only on the toolbar, and objects in the tree show a colored square to
indicate the current state of the badge.
4 To view the alert status of the objects for the other badges, click the Health buon and then the
 buon.
As you click each badge buon, the squares on each object indicate whether an alert is generated and
the criticality of the alert.
5 To view alerts for an object, select the object and click Show alerts.
The alert list dialog box appears, allowing you to search and sort for alerts for the object.
6 To view a list of the child objects for an object in the map, click the object.
A list of the number of children by object type appears at the boom of the center pane.
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