Re: Alerts & Badges
Hello Guys, I have couple questions on the Alerts The Alerts are divided as Badge score alerts, Faults and administrative alerts. What is the difference between fault alerts and administrative alerts...
View ArticleVirtual Disk info is showing up as No Data
I am trying to view Snapshot Space, Number of Virtual Disk, and Virtual Disk used for a vSphere 5 based Windows VM and vCops is showing No Data. I am assuming that vCops is gettings this info from the...
View ArticlevCloud Suite and vCOPs Options
VCOPS Community, I recently read an article over at VMTurbo: http://www.vmturbo.com/vmware-vcops-changes/ Where they mention the VCOPS versions are trying to be more closely aligned to the vCloud Suite...
View ArticleSNMP and vCOPS (ticketing via CA Unicenter/NSM)
We are looking to integrate VCOPs into our ticketing system. I couldn't find a great deal of documentation around this except to send SNMP traps to CA NSM which we will have rules configured to cut our...
View ArticleWhat permissions are needed for LDAP import to use Custom UI?
I can import LDAP users in the Custom UI. I then add an LDAP user to Administrators group. I try to login as LDAP user and auth does not work. Do LDAP users need to type in their login differently?...
View ArticleHow to fileter Report in vcops?
Hi,I would like to know if it possible to filter the report from the vsphere view of the vcops or if anyone know to create an specific report scope? I would like to create the default report of the...
View ArticleVm created in last 7 days
Is there a way to find out in vCOPS, how many Vms were created in last 7 days? A widget will be perfect. If, we can also get '"who created that VM' will be great too. Thanks
View ArticlevCOPS Manager Enterprise Health Dashboard
Hello, My department is looking to utilize vCOPS Manager Enterprise and would like to display health status of our VM environment on a large flat panel display in the Datacenter so its visible and...
View ArticleRe: Search Option
Hello Guys, (Vmware experts) In the Standard Ui the Oeprations tab --> Environment and in Custom UI The VC relationship Widget, Application detail widget they show the complete environment in the...
View Articlesnapshot
Hi, is there a way to get snapshot information from vCOPS? I would also like to see that if the snapshot has grown "x GB" it should send out alert. Thanks
View ArticleLast reboot
Is there a way to find out when was the last time, the VM was rebooted ? I am looking from vCOPS and VCM.
View ArticleAdmin:VM ratio for vSphere & Cloud
Does anyone have a realistic figure to represent Admin to VM ratio within a vSphere / Cloud environment? I'm thinking a good figure is about 1:800! I've seen a report from EMA dated back in 2009 to be...
View ArticleRe: What - If Scenario
Hello Guys, I am trying to generate an what - If scenario and after creating the scenario and hitting finish i am not getting any result in the result report. Is there any example out there for this...
View ArticleHost health in the cluster
For some reason, i got a alert that there is fault on my all my hosts. It says about "Problem with VMFS volume connectivity"When, I go to Alerts from the custom UI, I am not able to see those alerts....
View ArticleWorkload alerts on high watermark thresholds?
Apparently vCops calculates disk IO based on the high watermark for the IO. So if I installed vCops 3 months ago and a datastore has a HWM of 170 IOP, then that is what it uses to calculate the...
View ArticleEasy way to view children object performance in the past?
I had a network surge on Host vmnic3 about 2 hours ago. I can see the surge for the host in the Metric graph and it doesn't look normal. I am trying to figure out what caused the surge. I am...
View ArticleHyperic Adapter Installation
Am trying to install hyperic adapter in my vCOPS environment. I have uploaded the .pak file and the install is complete. Now when i am trying to configure the Adapter, it is asking me for database...
View ArticleRe: Does vCenter Upgrade effects vC Ops
Hello Guys, I have a situation where i have to upgrade my vcenter where the downtime whould be about 6 hrs. My question is What happens to vC Ops when my vcenter is not available for long time. What...
View ArticleUpgrade vCenter where vCOPS is running
Hi all, Is there any thing special I need to think of when upgrading vCenter 4.1 to 5.0u1 in relation to vCOPS 5.0 that is running in it? Regs, Rob
View ArticleUpdate Tags automatically
Is it possible to update tags value automaticlly ? I don't want to add datasore manually in tags ? Thanks
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