Default or All attributes for adapters?
My vmware adapters are set to default, yet my other adapters - like smarts, hyperic, oem and msft all use the ALL attrib value. Should I change those adapters to use default?
View ArticleDoes anyone alert into Smarts... the alert event text is backwards
Anyone use Smarts as the MOM for events from vcops? Everyone I see shows the event text backward and that makes it confusing. Most recent example is Noise above 81.0 > 68.8. Shouldnt that read Noise...
View Articlehow to use KPI? and how to declare our own KPI?
Hi, I am having vcloud suit advanced license, so i have only VCOPS adv version license. I want to add more KPI to any vm or application, where to edit and how to do that?
View ArticleDatastore Waste View
Hi all! could someoneexplain to methe meaning ofIdleDiskSpace Usedcolumnin the viewDatastoreWaste(underPlanning -> Views)?There is a documentthatdescribes the meaningof the columnsof these...
View ArticleMemory Metric Question
I am viewing the Guest Memory Demand and also Usage metrics in the custom console and notice the Demand is about half of the Usage metric. Which one is telling me the amount of memory the VM is using?...
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DT KPI?
Hi, Can some one explain me about the screenshot? how to set the DT? Let suppose i am talking about the Used space on a Datastore, now what is critical level? what is the compare value, wait cycle and...
View ArticlevCenter Operations 5.7 bug?
Hi all, I installedseveral weeksvCOPS5.7.Yesterdayeverything worked.Today,if I try toaccess the viewvSphereUI,always brings me backto theCustom UI. The viewAdminis working properly.I tried torestart,...
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Help creating Super Metric to show guest file system above 90%
I created a Dashboard with a Heat Map and Top-N-Analysis showing Virtual Machine|Guest File System % so we could quickly determine which VM's are getting low on disk space. I would like to create a...
View ArticleVCOPS for a small env
Hi, My customer are mostly SMB with 2-3 ESXi host usually less than 100 VM. Do I need as much as 16GB of RAM to run vCOPS ? For some customer vCOPS would be one of the largest workload... Anyone run...
View ArticleVCOPS EMC VNX Connector License
I am currently being bounced between VMware Licensing and EMC Licensing over how to obtain an evaluation license for the EMC VNX Connector for VCOPS. From what I understand, the product is sold by...
View ArticleVM Wasted Disk Space Analysis?
Can someone explain the following analysis query: "For each datastore, which VMs have the most wasted disk space?" It is showing a value of "0" in the "Waste | Disk Space | Total" column. I know we...
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what is the Default Alert Notification Interval TimeFrame for Vcops 5.7 ?
Recently Vcops5.7 has been installed on the development environment. After few analysis, noticed there is an alert notification delay on the vcops console level. For the testing purpose, triggered the...
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VM Capacity Remaining
Hi,With reference to this picture - In Disk Space Row its is displaying capacity remaining as 9.1 VMs.Can someone help us in this figure 9.1 Vms remaining, as compared to whole VM capacity.
View ArticleCapacity Planning: How to configure thresholds and setup alets for specific...
Hello All, I need some help/suggestions to configure thresholds and alerts for storage metrics. What I am trying to do?1. Create a threshold for EMC adapter attributes such as Read IOs, Write IOs2....
View ArticleAlerts not auto clearing
To the best of my knowledge, you can acknowledge faults but alerts should auto clear when the pertaining alert has been resolved. I'm trying to go through and clear out old alerts in my environment so...
View Article571 vcops and 57 Hyperic
Is anyone integrating Hyperic 57 thru vcops for events/alerts that are then passed thru to a "MOM" for disposition? How solid is the integration? Is there alot of setup? Specifically around getting...
View ArticleDashboards - Custom UI - VM Utilization
Hello and greetings from Portugal, I'm new to vCOps and I'm trying to create a dashboard that shows me from my virtual machines universe which one's are almost being used.The idea it's to see if we can...
View ArticleCross referencing VM's to Active Directory for a VDI environment?
I am just starting with VCOPS. My shop is heavy VDI, and I would like to display virtual machine usage by departments within Active Directory. Since we name our VDI based on user names with a two...
View ArticleFalse Capacity/IO Alerts?
Hello all, I've recently started managing vCOPS (currently 5.6, moving to 5.7 soon) for a client. I have plenty of experience with installing it but not so much in the day to day maintenance and usage....
View ArticleSNMP Adapter for F5 Load Balancer Data?
Has anyone configured the SNMP Adapter to poll SNMP data from an F5 load balancer? I got it up and running using the default MIB's but I wasn't sure if importing F5's MIB's would let me see things...
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