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c Click the alert name in the widget.
For example, click the Acct VM CPU early warning Risk alert. The Alert Details Summary tab
appears.
d Resolve the alert based on recommendations.
For example, to use the If this is a standalone host, add more memory to the host
recommendation, click the link to the instructions for adding memory to a host.
6 To return to the Accounting VMs and Hosts dashboard so that you can process more alerts, click the
back buon located on the left pane toolbar.
7 Select the next alert in the alert list and continue processing the alerts.
What to do next
After a few collection cycles, look again at your alerts to determine if they were canceled and no longer
appear in the dashboard. If the alerts are still present, see “User Scenario: Investigate the Root Cause of a
Problem by Using the Troubleshooting Tab Options,” on page 56 for an example troubleshooting workow.
Evaluating Metric Information
The All Metrics tab provides a relationship map and user-dened metric charts. The topological map helps
you evaluate objects in the context of their place in your environment topology. The metric charts are based
on the metrics for the selected object that you think will help you identify the possible cause of a problem in
your environment.
Although you might be investigating problems with a single object, for example, a host system, the
relationship map allows you to see the host in the context of parent and child objects. It is also works as a
hierarchical navigation system. If you double-click an object in the map, that object becomes the focus of the
map and the available metrics for the object are active in the lower-left pane.
You can also build your own set of metric charts. You select the objects and metrics so that you can get a
more detailed view of changes to dierent metrics for a single object, or for related objects over time.
Where available, the tab also provides pre-dened sets of metric to help you when looking at a specic
aspect of an object. The metrics are organized into the most relevant groups for the selected object, and
provide the most relevant metrics. For example, for a host, the metrics are displayed under CPU, Memory,
Network, and Storage.
Create Metric Charts When You Troubleshoot a Virtual Machine Problem
You create a custom group of metric charts when you troubleshoot a problem with a virtual machine so that
you can compare dierent metrics. The level of detail that you can create using the All Metrics tab in
vRealize Operations Manager can contribute signicantly to your eort to nd the root cause of a problem.
As a virtual infrastructure administrator investigating a reported performance problem with a virtual
machine, you determined that you need to see detailed charts about the following reported symptoms.
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Guest le system overall disk space usage reaching critical limit
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Guest partition disk space usage
The following method of evaluating problems using the All Metrics tab is provided as an example for using
vRealize Operations Manager and is not denitive. Your troubleshooting skills and your knowledge of the
particulars of your environment determine which methods work for you.
Procedure
1 Enter the name of the virtual machine in the Search text box, located on the main title bar.
In this example, the virtual machine name is sales-10-dk.
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