Tag: VCF Operations
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vROps and Service Discovery – A New Dashboard for Troubleshooting Service Discovery
While working with the new vRealize Operations Service Discovery Management Pack in the Tech Marketing lab here at VMware, I built a dashboard to help troubleshoot service discovery issues. I am sharing this in case others find it helpful. There are a few things that can lead to service discovery failures: Version of tools older…
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The Self-Healing Data Center Part 5: Configure an Alert to Trigger the vRO Workflow
Now that we have configured the Translation Shim and vRealize Orchestrator the next task before testing is to configure vR Ops to send an alert to the shim. This will be the final post in this series and when you complete this, you will be ready to apply this solution to automate any alerts you…
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The Self-Healing Data Center Part 4: Configuration of the vRO Example Workflow
So far we have discussed the reasoning behind the Translator Shim, installed it, configured it, started and tested the shim server. In this blog post, we will set up things on the Orchestrator side so that the workflow is ready to go when an alert is fired from vR Ops. This blog post assumes you…
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The Self-Healing Data Center Part 3: Configuring and Testing the Orchestrator Translation Shim
So far, we’ve walked through installing the Translation Shims. In this blog post we’ll configure the Orchestrator shim for use. The Orchestrator shim is but one of the handful of shims included in the solution. More are being added via the community. Participation is encouraged!
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The Self-Healing Data Center Part 2: Installing the Translation Shims for Automating vR Ops Alerts
In the previous post, I explained some of the capabilities and limitations with vR Ops alert notifications for automation of alert notifications via the REST Notification Plugin. I also introduced the Translation Shims for Log Insight and/or vRealize Operations Manager Webhooks as a solution to these current limitations. By the way, as the name indicates, this solution…
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The Self-Healing Data Center Part 1: Using vR Ops with vRO to Automatically Remediate Alerts
If you are a user of vR OPs, you know that it can monitor your infrastructure, server OS, applications and more. But as this commercial suggests, monitoring is only part of the answer. Wouldn’t it be much better to have vR Ops attempt some simple fixes before giving up and calling for human intervention? In…
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A Postman Collection for Upgrading vR Ops Endpoint Operations Agent via REST API
With the release of vRealize Operations Manager (vR Ops) 6.3 this week, I noticed that I had not updated the Endpoint Operations (EP Ops) agents running in my lab since version 6.1 and as a peer pointed out the 6.3 release notes specifically point out that you should upgrade the EP Ops agents to 6.3…
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vR Ops Alert “VMware Virtual Data Service” Is Not Available – What to Do?
Running vR Ops in my home lab and noticed that a couple of VMware services were down thanks to the EPOPS agent. One of those was sort of a mystery, the “VMware Virtual Data Service” which I will shorten to “vdcs” for this post. Turns out that this service is responsible for the Content Library…
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Starting vRO Workflows with Log Insight Webhooks
Beginning with version 3.3 of Log Insight, alerts can be forwarded via a webhook. Basically, any URL you designate will have an HTTP POST issued with the alert contents as a JSON body. This feature provides some very basic capability and most use cases will require a bit more functionality. For example, vRO workflows can…
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Get A List of vR Ops Available Metrics
When building dashboards, reports or even symptoms and alerts in vRealize Operations Manager 6, it may be helpful to have a handy reference of metrics available in a given instance of vR Ops. This is dependent on the solutions installed, of course, so this will vary from instance to instance. Also, with the vRealize Operations…