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VMware vRealize Operations Essentials

You're reading from   VMware vRealize Operations Essentials Harness the power of VMware vRealize Operations to efficiently manage your IT infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785284755
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to vRealize Operations Manager 2. Install, Configure, and Administer vRealize Operations Manager FREE CHAPTER 3. Dashboards, Badges, and Widgets 4. Views and Reports 5. Alerts, Symptoms, Recommendations, and Actions 6. Capacity Planning and Capacity Projects 7. vRealize Operations Manager Solutions 8. vRealize Infrastructure Navigator 9. vRealize Log Insight Integration 10. End Point Operations Index

Symptom Definitions

As mentioned earlier, it is one or more Symptom Definitions that defines when an alert is triggered. There are four different Symptom Definition types:

  • Metric/Property
  • Message Event
  • Fault
  • Metric Event

If you are creating your own custom alerts, you will generally be working with Metric/Property Symptom Definitions. The other three are generally used by vRealize Operations itself, or by Solutions.

Symptom Criticality

The description of every symptom includes its Criticality. This is a measure of how important the symptom is. There are four levels of Criticality:

  • Info: Typically used to describe the object state, for example, Virtual machine is powered off, which is a symptom that might be used to suppress alerts that aren't relevant when a machine is powered off
  • Warning: This is the first level of criticality; this will typically set a badge color yellow
  • Immediate: This is something that requires immediate attention and the badge color will turn orange
  • Critical: This is something...
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