UI Logo Rebrand
Hi all, I was wondering if it was possible to modify the logo after you have logged into vROPs. I know its possible to change the backdrop before you login but what about after you login. I would like...
View ArticleCreating capacity report for a fixed set of clusters
Is there a good tutorial or document out there that can show me how to create a cluster capacity report for specific clusters? I want to create a report that shows "Cluster A" remaining VMs by CPU,...
View ArticleCheck Maintenance Mode
Hi,is there a metric or an other possibility to check, if a object was in maintenance mode?I have set multiple maintenance schedules but still receive mails at that time from the object that is was not...
View ArticleMonitor ESXi configuration changes ?
Hi all I have used vROPS 6 – How to create an Event Alert for when someone changes a VM setting | VM IGNITE to monitor VM configuration changes and it works fine. But this approach seem not usable when...
View ArticleApplying Policy to a Group
I have a supermetric that I want to apply to all cluster and datacenter objects. I need to add them to a policy. I created a new policy, but I need to apply my policy to a group. Right now there is...
View ArticleCompute Resource vs Host system
What is the difference between "compute resource" and "host system" object types in vROps? Which one represents a single ESX instance?
View Articlenot receiving smtp alerts from VROps
Hi All, I have set fresh installation of vRops everything seems to be working except the outgoing Email notification. I followed by in order to set the outbound settings : vbulosity: VMware vROps -...
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SuperMetric not showing up
I've created a supermetric on a virtual disk counter for virtual machines. I added datacenter and compute cluster objects to the supermetric.I edited a policy to turn on the supermetric. I see the...
View ArticleAnomaly in Datacenter CPU Time Remaining
I'm seeing some strange results in my Datacentre time remaining analysis. There is one datacentre with two clusters. Cluster A shows CPU demand at 175% stress free value (red).Cluster B shows CPU...
View ArticlevROps VMs added
I'm looking for a way to get out of vROps how many VMs have been added to the environment over the last 30 days, 60 days, 120 days, etc. Is there any such metric or way to calculate this? I don't...
View ArticlePractical examples of Super Metric use cases?
I am looking for some practical Super Metric examples. Thanks,-MattG
View Articlehow to find out what vrops version I have
how do I find out what vrops version I have I mean is it enterpirse plus, standard ?
View ArticleHow do I submit a list of server names for a deployment?
The only way I know of how to submit a list of servers is to use the "Define" icon and then choose WHERE "Machine Name" IN (paste in a formatted list of servers here). The problem is that the server...
View ArticleUmm... override compliant result to non-compliant
When we are creating a compliance exception we can select to either override non-compliant results to compliant or override compliant results to non-compliant. Under what circumstances would we...
View ArticleESX Image provisioning
On the features page for VCM it states "Bare metal provisioning of Linux, Windows, and ESX images" Does this mean VCM can deploy ESXi onto a server and manage it's configuration ongoing ?? Or am I...
View ArticleError - Install Agent Windows (vCenter)
Hello All,I am trying install agent of vCM (5.7.1)on Windows (vCenter), but i received follow message of error: Install Simple Installer Completed with errors ::SetFileAttributes( ) Failed......
View ArticleAgent install failing on Windows 2008 R2 servers
Hi I'm having difficulties getting the VCM Agent to deploy to any Windows Server 2008 R2 servers in my test environment, when I set the Agent to install via the web console it fails on the first step...
View ArticlePatch assessments failing
I occasionally see this and sometimes its worse than others. When I or my colleagues try and run an assessment against a group of servers for an assessment template in patching we'll get the following...
View ArticleCan VCM manage servers that are not member of a domain ?
We have multiple standalone servers that are not domain members both Unix and Windows, how can they be added to VCM and managed? For Windows I think the option is to select domain "Workgroup", but I am...
View ArticleUNIX bulletins in VCM
Is SCR required if the plan is to use VCM to just check the patch levels of the UNIX/Linux machines? In other words, we just download the bulletins and run assessment against the bulletins but not use...
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