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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager - Second Edition

By : Spas Kaloferov, Chris Slater, Scott Norris
Book Image

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)

Monitoring compliance

Let's take a deeper look into how to view compliance alerts and what dashboards there are that can help us monitor our environment.

Compliance Alerts

Now that we have enabled vSphere configuration compliance, let's check how compliant our vSphere environment is:

  1. Select the vSphere World custom group as you did in the previous example. Navigate to the Analysis tab and select Compliance. As you will notice from the following image, the compliance badge score has dropped to 83% after we activated all the configuration compliance policies:
It may take a few minutes until the Compliance badge score changes, reflecting the newly activated compliance alerts.
  1. If you scroll down, you will see all...