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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)

Creating symptoms, recommendations, and alerts

Now that we have a good understanding of what symptoms, recommendations, actions, and alerts are, let’s see how we can create new ones and tie them together.

As mentioned earlier, actions are predefined and new actions cannot be created in vRealize Operations.

Creating symptoms

First, let’s see how we can create a symptom definition. vRealize Operations comes out of the box with more than 600 symptom definitions. I recommend you first spend some time getting yourself familiar with them as much as possible. Before creating a new one, make sure an existing definition doesn't exist that matches your needs, by using the symptom definition search and filter options...