Climbing Mountains & Building Clouds
Update: 10/25/2019Good news! Mr. Brandon Gordon reached out and informed me of a way to accomplish everything I have outlined below with a simple out-of-the-box feature available in vRealize Operations 7.5 and newer. The VM Property “Summary|Runtime|Power State” can be added to a View and transformed to a ‘relative timestamp’ value to show the number…Continue Reading “Tracking VM Powered Off Duration with vRealize Operations”
I have heard many customers ask the question “Can vRealize Operations be configured to provide our application teams access so that they can see dashboards/metrics for only the objects they are responsible for?”. Of course the answer is “YES”; however, there is not a lot of out-of-the-box workflows to accomplish this and the process is…Continue Reading “Configuring vRealize Operations (vROps) for Application Teams”
This is a quick write up that outlines how to leverage vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) to monitor a website with an “HTTP Check” Method and the Endpoint Operations Management Agent (EPOPS). Below are two specific use cases that made this solution relevant for me. Use Case 1 – Monitoring my Blog with vROps A couple…Continue Reading “Monitoring my Blog & Printer w/vRealize Operations (vROps)”
Recently one of my customers asked me how to go about monitoring Windows services with VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps). Nothing fancy… just CPU, Memory, Up/Down status. Luckily they were licensed for vROps Advanced which according to the version comparison chart provides “Monitoring of OS resources (CPU, disk, memory, network)”. This is really just a…Continue Reading “Monitoring Windows Services with VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps)”