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4 Click Save to save the alert denition.
Your new alert appears in the list of alert denitions.
You have added an alert denition to have vRealize Operations Manager alert you when the capacity of
your host systems begins to run out.
What to do next
Create dashboards and views for future investigation. See “Create Dashboards and Views,” on page 31.
Create Dashboards and Views
To help you investigate and troubleshoot problems with your cluster and host systems that might occur in
the future, you can create dashboards and views that apply the troubleshooting tools and solutions that you
used to research and solve the problems with your host system, to make those troubleshooting tools and
solutions available for future use.
To readily view the status of your cluster and host systems when your CIO asks you about their health, you
can use the decision support dashboards on the vRealize Operations Manager Home page. For example, you
can:
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Use the vSphere Clusters dashboard to view the utilization index, CPU demand, and memory use for
your clusters. This dashboard also tracks the net use and disk I/O operations.
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Use vSphere Cluster Conguration Summary dashboard to track the high availability status, and other
conguration items.
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Use the vSphere Hosts Overview to examine the capacity levels of your cluster, host systems, and
virtual machines.
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Use the Health of Host Systems dashboard to view the active alert list, capacity metric chart and
heatmap for your host system.
Or, you might need to create your own dashboards to track the status of your clusters and host systems.
If you work in a Network Operations Center environment and have multiple monitors, you can run multiple
instances of vRealize Operations Manager, and dedicate a monitor to each specic dashboard so that you
can visually track the status of your objects.
Prerequisites
Create an alert denition to alert you when the capacity of your host system is geing low. See “Create a
New Alert Denition,” on page 30.
Procedure
1 In the left pane, click Home.
2 Click Dashboard List, and look through the list of existing dashboards to determine whether you can
use the cluster and host system dashboards to track your clusters and host systems.
3 Click the Health of Host Systems dashboard, and review the widgets included on it.
The inclusion of the Object List, Alert List, Metric Picker, Metric Chart, Heatmap, and Top-N widgets
would allow you to easily peruse the status of the host systems that you select in the Object List widget.
This dashboard has the widget interaction congured so that the object you select in the Object List
widget is the object for which the other widgets display data.
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