Using script to collect Data
Hi, I would like to use the new script feature to collect a metric. I see that the script should return a value like key:value This is my script : #!/bin/bashval=$(netstat -ntaupe |grep httpd | grep...
View ArticleMonitering snapshots
HiWe get requests for snapshots all the time at all hours of the day. We currently use the vcenter scheduled tasks function to run the snapshots at a particular time. We set up a email alert that...
View ArticleOS Uptime counter
Hi, I just noticed that the OS Uptime counter is NOT accurate. As an example: Server has been online for 4 days according to Windows (SystemInfo) OS Uptime shows it as up for 11 days I have checked...
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Control what dashboad a user sees when they login
Hello, I am running vRops 6.1 and users are imported from an LDAP source. I would like to configure a user's dashboard, that is when they login the see and access a unique/specific Dashboard.any...
View Articlehow to use device_iostat.pl
Hi, I would like to create custom script for OS Monitoring.If my script return a pair : ReturnValue=value it's ok, metric is uploaded to my VROPS server. But I would like to use some more complicated...
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Custom Views - list showing cancelled alerts (vROps 6.0.1)
Hi all, I've created a custom View of a list to report on Host Compliance. The view displays all of the symptoms that are alerting, even though they have been rectified and the symptom's metric is...
View Articlecompare Ready value of a vm: vRops vs vCenter
Hi, while analyzing cpu values of a vm I noticed that the "ready value" differ too much to ignore between vCenter and a vRops report.After looking at some more reports it turns out that the ready value...
View ArticleConnecting Remote Collector Node / Data Node to new Master Node
Hi I have a scenario for disaster recovery. What if a Master Node and its Master Replica become permanently offline. Is it possible to re-attach Data Nodes or Remote Collector Nodes to a new cluster...
View ArticleReport for all mount points on a Guest OS(EP OPS)
Hello Everyone. Was hoping someone knew of a work around for collecting all mount information for each Guest OS. I'm not sure if this would require a Super Metric. But in views when I select FileServer...
View ArticlevROps v6.2 / SCOM MP and SCOM Exchange Dashboards
I just did a new install of vROps v6.2 with SCOM v4.1.3195114. I modified the scom.properities file to have the following as a Top Level......
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vRealize 6.x - memory demand issue
I am seeing high Memory(host) demand on one of my VMs, which I think is a false positive:I think this is being caused by the VM memory setting, "Reserve all guest memory (All locked)", being...
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Force Registering vRops 6.2 sgainst same vcenter that vCops 5.85 is registered?
Sorry if this has already been answered, I couldn't find anything searching. Stood up an eval instance of vRops to prove out worth over vCops. Registration is failing with the following. After going...
View ArticlevRops Failing to generate VM inventory report on some of the vm's in the...
Hello Guys, vRops failed to pull the vcenter, cluster and datacenter names on some of the virtual machines but it is able to pull, uptime, cpu etc.. details. When i checked the vm's most of the vm's...
View ArticlevROPs 6.2 VM Tags gone
vROPs 6.1 had all my VM tags and was working great. I used the tags to label VM's by customer and generated a report for billing using the tags so billing could verify the VM configuration matched the...
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vR Ops 6.2a Update (Build 3528905)
An update to the vROps 6.2 - 6.2.0a was released:https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/get-download?downloadGroup=VROPS-620 See VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.2a Release NotesThis 6.2a update...
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Operations Manager design
Hi guys, we have 3 big hubs (North A., Europe and Asia).Under each hub we have several smaller sublocations.Each hub and sublocation has several hosts we'd like to monitor.vCenters are planned to be...
View ArticleHelp With Reports
I have a view created that uses Cluster Compute Resource as it subject and then have vsphere custom tags and several custom annotations that we use for automation as the data, these work great. I use...
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VROPS and vSphere SSO.
I have following version:vCenter Server: 6.0 Update1 (Build 3018523), Linux VM Appliance vRelize Operation Manager: 6.2 (Build 3445568), VM Appliance I added to vROPS as a...
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Exchange Dashboard design
Hi everyone, I'm very new to VROPs and I have a brand new VROPS 6.2 install which I have tied into my vCenter environment. One of the things I would like to do with this environment is to allow our...
View ArticleApplication report in VSOM (using the Application tiers in 6.1)
Hi, I am trying to produce a report for applications in VSOM 6.1 (I manually added tiers for an application) I was trying to show the resources dedicated to the application and each of the tiers in a...
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