Normal: Not Calculated Yet
I've had vCOPS implemented at two sites for several months now. The hosts are all saying "Normal: Not Calculated Yet." Although, 3 of the 4 hosts at one site look like they are picking up metrics....
View ArticlevCenter Operations Manager Custom UI Dashboard Metrics Lost
Hi, I'm Gabriel, and I have a very bad headache with some metrics that were working and just disappear from my dashboard, this metrics were from the resource world adn when i tryed to reconfigure the...
View ArticleThere's a way to add metrics results and show it as one at a generic dashboard?
I need to take a metric result from each datacenter and show it as one at a generic dashboard. Is this possible?
View ArticleAvailability
Has anyone written a report for Availability? I"d like to generate a report on a cluster that shows basic Uptime/percentage of uptime, taking into account when a host is put into maintenance. Anyone...
View Articlevcops and cisco switches
Hi All, I've written a blog post on monitoring cisco Switches using vCOPS. Do take a look http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/Abhilash_hb/2013/05/27/monitoring-cisco-switches-using-vcops
View Articlevapp hardware platforms
All, I am learning that the hardware platform 7 for the 502/503 vapp includes bundled vmware tools, but to add more cpu than 8 requires hardware platform 8.So its not possible to change this hardware...
View ArticlevCOPS Web Login Fails in Linked Mode if Site Unavailable. Need to Fix
We have 2 sites in linked mode running vCenter 5.1b and vCOPS 5.6. Whenever we isolate the 2nd site and lose contact with the 2nd site ,which is planned, we can no longer login to the vCOPS using the...
View ArticleDisk I/O Estimated Capacity for VM way off
So found this interesting today, noticed that one of my VM's the Disk I/O Estimated Capacity is way off of what is even remotely possible. What would cause something like this? edit:Is there a way to...
View ArticleSNMP, Generic SQL Data Loader and embedded Port Adapters
Anyone have any success with using the SNMP (non-default mibs) and/or the Generic SQL Data Loader third party adapters? I'm running vCenter Operations v5.7 vApp and testing the custom-ui. I've...
View ArticleCreating Reports in Custom-UI
Where am I supposed to go to learn about creating reports in the Custom UI? I saw a couple of references in this forum to creating XML files, but I can't find anything in the guides.
View ArticleGeo location not working
Hi all,I have configured vC OPS 5.7 to use geo location.I successfully configured in vc ops google maps key, created "GEO Location" tags values & configured these tags values with the correct...
View ArticleHelp creating datastore dashboard
Hopefully someone can help point me in the right direction, I'm wanting to create a dashboard to help find VM's with high disk i/o at any given time. I already have my charts on one dashboard so I can...
View ArticleCisco UCS
Is there a way we can monitor Cisco UCS using vCOPS? Has anyone already done it? Please advise on how to setup and configure. Thanks
View ArticleMajority of my datastores disk space issues incorrectly
Hi Guys, I am using isilon storage and most of my datastores are reporting the following errors: 0 days of usable Disk Space Usage capacity remainingis Over VM Capacity by 14 VMs because of Disk I/O...
View Articleexperimental custom reports feature
Hi, has anybody found a description how the custom reports feature works? Regards,Christian
View Articlecustom reports & views
Hi all,I am working on a custom view & report for groups, I used to test it the provided "CustomViewsAndReports.xml". The creation via vcops-viewsreports.sh is OK :Total Views: 3Creating...
View ArticleHow to create a public dashboard?
I created some custom dashboard for our management team, I'd like to include the custom dashboard in our SharePoint2012 page.I tried to include the custom dashboard link in the "Page Viewer" parts of...
View ArticleBUG? Temperature Sensor data is static in vCops
I am using HP G8 servers installed with the latest HP ESXi (12/2012) build. In vCops under All Metrics -> Sensors-> Temperature -> SensorName-> Temp C, I can see the temp recording and...
View Article503 vsphere ui reports - pdf blank
I am running reports from vsphere UI and all pdf are blank, but csv are populated. Anyone know what to do to resolve this?
View ArticleOperations Manager Will Load
Not sure what is going on, I installed it following the videos, I also have the license key activated... But I cannot access it, anytime I type in the IP address of the UI VM I get the security page...
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