How to setup generic scoreboard for specified VMs
I have two question about "Generic Scoreboard": 1. I use tag to classify some VMs by QA, PRD or DEV role. If I select "Resource Kind", then select all VM under a tag, "metric selector" window will only...
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Difference CPU Running vs CPU Active
Does anyone know what's meant with CPU Active (vs CPU Running)?
View ArticleFolder Groupings - Relation from Folders to VMs
Good afternoon, I have a quick question about folder-to-vm mappings. It appears that the mapping is not recursive (that is, if I select a folder, I only see relationships for direct descendents of that...
View ArticlevCenter Operation Manager 5.8 UI VM Root password locked out
Hello Everyone, Is there a way to unlock the root account on the UI VM of vCenter Operation Manager? I went through the password reset process but the account is still locked out so I can't log in...
View ArticlePost upgrade issues
I upgraded our 5.0 appliance to 5.6 this morning and it seemed to go fine with no errors or issues, but now the vsphere user interface will not load, only the web interface loads, and our license seems...
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Host missing from VCOPS
Currently running VCOPs 5.8. All of my host are showing with the exception of one in a 3 host cluster. I have placed the server in Maintenance Mode and restarted both the host and the VCOPs app with no...
View ArticleBug in vCops 5.8 - Skittles Chart Sorting
We had to delete and recreate two of our ESXi hosts within vCOPs. Noticed in one of our dashboards that the hosts are now out of order. Cosmetic issue but would be nice if they were in some predictable...
View ArticleVCOPS Foundation - Metrics
Can you change metric top/bottom values in VCOPS Foundation? aka say disk space on a datastore is 90% Full and that's "Critical" and I would like it to be 90% warning and 95% full to be critical?...
View ArticleJVM heap size and vCOPS
Hi all, Some of mycolleagueshave asked me,based on theirexperiences asit is possible thatvCOPSadvisedto decrease theRAMof aVMwithout taking into accountthe heapsizeof the JVMthatis configuredinside the...
View ArticleIdle vCops sessions
The vCops 5.0.x collector user is spawning connections and leaving the status "Idle for" forever in the vSphere client Sessions view. Why is vCops not cleaning up its connections that are no longer in...
View ArticlevCops user sessions idle on vCenter
Hello, At my company we have a couple of vCops (5.7 and 5.8) instances and we notice that we are getting several vCops user sessions idle in the vCenter server. Is this an expected behavior? Thank you...
View ArticleStopping Services in vCOps
After the side-by-side upgrade of a large vCOps installation (>1TB) the backup process of the new vCOps vApp takes a long time (>24 hours) for us. To be safe, should services be disabled in...
View ArticleVCOPS 5.8 - Where is the "Active Directory Integration"?
In the 5.8 release notes, this is a "new feature". Enhanced authentication options with new active directory integration for authentication. Where is this new option? All I see is the old "import from...
View Articlehow to use vCOPs for N+1 capacity monitoring
If we want to leverage vCOPs capacity badges for basic N+1 capacity alerting -- ie, "after adding 10 new VMs to cluster x, this cluster no longer has the resources to fully run existing workload if 1...
View ArticleDetermining validity of VM Waste
I have a group of VMs that have a very heavy load once a day for 2 hours. For the rest of the day they are entirely idle. During the time they run, they use a lot of cpu and RAM. As a result, they...
View ArticleNightly vCOPs calculation
What time does vCOps do its nightly heuristics calculation by default - 12AM or 1AM? Can this be changed and is there a KB that outlines how to change the time? Are there caveats or dangers to...
View ArticleCustomizing Waste Calculation for a subset of VMs
I have a subset of 100 VMs that runs heavily for 1 hour a day, then idle for 23 hours. They all have 8 GB of RAM and 4vCPUs. If during their peak time they only use 4GB of RAM and 2 vCPUs, I want...
View ArticleImpact of Pausing Data Collection in vCenter Operations
If I shut down vCOps services during my backup window, I will not be collecting data during that time. Suppose it takes 1 hour to backup vCOps, then I start the services again automatically. This...
View ArticleSNMP configuration for vcops
I have set up SNMP in vCOPs but it is not sending vCOps information to our SNMP server. 1. Other than configuring the information in the admin UI under "SNMP configuration, is there any other set up...
View Articlewhat are the condition types for emailFilter.xml
Is there a list of condition types that I would use in the emailFilter.xml? I'd like to create specific rules for emails to be sent and I'm unable to find documentation on the exact condition filters...
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