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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)

Importing data with a REST API

What if there is information we would like to import into vRealize Operations but there is no solution available? This is fine as vRealize Operations supports multiple ways to import any data we like, but it will require some scripting if it's a regular import.

Prior to vRealize Operations 6.0 in 5.x, we had the HTTP POST adapter and the TEXT adapter. Both could import data into vCenter Operations Manager 5.x. In vRealize Operations 6.6, we still have access to the HTTP POST adapter; this adapter has remained unchanged from vCenter Operations Manager 5.x for legacy support, and any current scripts importing data that is configured should still work using this adapter.

The new and preferred way to import our own data is through the new vRealize Operations REST API. This is a highly-functional API. Most GUI tasks can also be done through the API...