6.4

Host Name Does Not Appear in Action Dialog Box
When you run an action on a virtual machine, the host name is blank in the action dialog box.
Problem
When you select virtual machine on which to run an action, and click the Action buon, the dialog box
appears, but the Host column is empty.
Cause
Although your user role is congured to run action on the virtual machines, you do not have a user roll that
provides you with access to the host. You can see the virtual machines and run actions on them, but you
cannot see the host data for the virtual machines. vRealize Operations Manager cannot retrieve data that
you do not have permission to access.
Solution
You can run the action, but you cannot see the host name in the action dialog boxes.
Monitor Recent Task Status
The Recent Task status includes all the tasks initiated from vRealize Operations Manager. You use the task
status information to verify that your tasks nished successfully or to determine the current state of tasks.
You can monitor the status of tasks that are started when you run actions, and investigate whether a task
nished successfully.
Prerequisites
You ran at least one action as part of an alert recommendation or from one of the toolbars. See “Run Actions
From Toolbars in vRealize Operations Manager,” on page 66.
Procedure
1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click the Administration icon.
2 Click Recent Tasks.
3 To determine if you have tasks that are not nished, click the Status column and sort the results.
Option Description
In Progress
Indicates running tasks.
Completed
Indicates nished tasks.
Failed
Indicates incomplete tasks on at least one object when started on multiple
objects.
Maximum Time Reached
Indicates timed out tasks.
4 To evaluate a task process, select the task in the list and review the information in the Details of Task
Selected pane.
The details appear in the Messages pane. If the information message includes No action taken, the task
nished because the object was already in the requested state.
5 To view the messages for an object when the task included several objects, select the object in the
Associated Objects list.
To clear the object selection so that you can view all the messages, press the space bar.
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