Finally, we are up to the last stage of applying our recently created super metric into a policy and applying it to active objects.
When you associate your super metric to an object type, the super metric is calculated for the objects in that object type and appears as a metric for the object type.
After you have saved and closed your super metric, while focused on the metric, select the Object Types tab at the bottom of the screen and select the Add Object Type button.
Browse or search for the object type you wish to add to the super metric. This will allow us to specify that the super metric will only apply to certain object types and therefore not attempt to be calculated on the object that will not support it, such as Datastores, for example.
In this example, we want to monitor the entire vCenter Cluster (with a depth of 2), therefore...