MIgrating the vCOps vApp
What do I need to do to migrate the vCOps vApp from one vCenter Server to another?
View Articleavailability metric in a scoreboard
How do you do the availability metric in a scoreboard? The availability metric is either a 0 (unavailable) or 1 (available). When I attempt to add the availability metric to a scoreboard is expects 3...
View ArticleError after vCOPS 5.8 Upgrade (from 5.7.2)
Hi everyone Here in our demo environment, I got troubles after upgrading vCOPS 5.7.2 to 5.8. E.g. in the "vSphere/Troubleshooting" dashboard/template, in the Resources widget, I only see an error: An...
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VC operations manager change vcenter
I installed and configured VC operations manager VMs to monitor a vcenter but had to change their IP addresses after that. How can I make the vcenter see the new IP address only and remove the old...
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vCOps Metric Graph Widget -> Auto Refresh doesn't work since 5.8
Hi @ all, I'm not sure if only I have this issue. I'm unable to find any solutions via Google or community search.But since I've updated my vCOps Advanced from 5.6 to 5.8 I'm experiancing the problem...
View ArticleStorage Capacity Reports
Hi All Maybe I'm missing something but I can't see in vCOPs, where / how to produce a Storage Capacity Report based on Usage and ideally excluding local datastores. I am running 5.7 (soon to upgrade...
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Log Insight Integration
I'm running vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 on a vCenter 5.1 environment and Log Insight 1.0.4-1169900. I added the content pack to log insight, but I do not seem to be able to successfully run the...
View ArticleReclaimable Waste Calaculation for Disk Space
I'm looking to see if anyone is aware of an article or explanation of the mathematical calculation for "Disk" under Dashboard -> Effeciency Badge -> Reclaimable Waste -> Disk ? Yesh did a...
View ArticleExclude a specific VM from a multi-level alert
Setup a multi-level alert for virtual machines that alerts when workload and stress are > ##% due to cpu or memory. Want to see if possible to exclude a single virtual machine from triggering this...
View Articlechanging Attribute package of Hyperic
I'd like to change the attribute package that is being used by vCenter Operations Hyperic Analytics Pack > Hyperic Agent from All Attributes to Default Attributes for all Hyperic Agents. I know...
View ArticleDT Calculation too slow
Hi all, every day, the DT Calculation Info reports that the job is still running (see the screenshots). It starts at 1:00 AM, but it finish after a lot of hours. This causes vCOPS to run too slow......
View Articlewhat is change index in vCenter Operations Manager?
I'm looking at the metrics stored for an application in vCenter Operations Manager custom ui. What is the metric Self - Change Index? I can't find anything in the documentation that explains what...
View ArticlevCOPS 5.8 Errors - "The inventory object is inaccessible or has been deleted"...
When selecting a cluster and clicking on the "Planning" tab, I'm getting an error I've not yet seen before: "The inventory object is inaccessible or has been deleted". I'm running vCOPS 5.8 Standard...
View Articlegetting a numeric value for Health Score over the past 6 months and past year
Is there a way to get a numeric value for display in a generic scoreboard for an applications health for the past 6 months and year. I can put a metric graph in a dashboard that shows me how the...
View ArticleApplication Monitoring Dashboard
I'm getting requests regularly to setup dashboards for application admins to monitor their specific applications. We've created the applications, but I'm finding limitations in setting up the...
View ArticleRemediate Oversized VM with Limits?
So I've been letting Operations Manager run for several months and now I'd like to remediate the Oversized VMs. I see several VMs with 8GB or 16GB of memory, but vCOPS is recommending 1GB of memory....
View ArticleViewing provisioning statistics in vCOps
Can I use vCOps to see how many VMs were created in a previous month?
View ArticleRename esxi host from IP address to DNS name in OPS Manager?
Hello, If a host was added to vCenter by IP address and OPS manager installed but later the host was removed and added back with the DNS name, is there a way in OPS manager to "rename" the instance to...
View ArticleDisk Space Metrics not being collected since 5.8 upgrade
Hi All, Just putting this out here to see if anyone else has seen something similar. Basically I upgraded from 5.7.1 to 5.8 and everything is working flawlessly apart from the Disk Space metricsThis...
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Sorting on additional columns in vSphere dashboard Datastore Performance
Hi, I was wondering why I couldn't sort on any of the columns in the default vSphere dashboard "Datastore Performance". If I can't sort on the values I want to see it kind of defeats the purpose what...
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