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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager - Second Edition

By : Spas Kaloferov, Chris Slater, Scott Norris
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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager - Second Edition

By: Spas Kaloferov, Chris Slater, Scott Norris

Overview of this book

In the modern IT world, the criticality of managing the health, efficiency, and compliance of virtualized environments is more important than ever. With vRealize Operations Manager 6.6, you can make a difference to your business by being reactive rather than proactive. Mastering vRealize Operations Manager helps you streamline your processes and customize the environment to suit your needs. You will gain visibility across all devices in the network and retain full control. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and support images, you will quickly master the ability to manipulate your data and display it in a way that best suits you and your business or technical requirements. This book not only covers designing, installing, and upgrading vRealize Operations 6.6, but also gives you a deep understanding of its building blocks: badges, alerts, super metrics, views, dashboards, management packs, and plugins. With the new vRealize Operations 6.6 troubleshooting capabilities, capacity planning, intelligent workload placement, and additional monitoring capabilities, this book is aimed at ensuring you get the knowledge to manage your virtualized environment as effectively as possible.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Self-monitoring dashboards

vRealize Operations offers out-of-the-box dashboards that can help you monitor the overall status of a cluster and its nodes, including main services and key components.

These dashboards are fed with information by the built-in adapter for node and cluster status self-monitoring. They give a holistic picture of what vRealize Operations is doing, and makes it easier for users to check alerts or symptoms on the self-monitoring objects and troubleshoot vRealize Operations. It is worth mentioning that these dashboards were created keeping technical support engineers in mind, not vRealize Operations end users.

By default, the dashboards are not listed:

You can access them by navigating to the Dashboards tab, All Dashboards, and then vRealize Operations. Let's take a deeper look at some of those self-monitoring dashboards and how they can be useful for...