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Fresh Deploy of Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.3
We deployed Aria Operations earlier this week, let's now do Aria Operations for Logs! The latest version of Logs is 8.18.3 and can be...
May 11


Fresh Deploy of Aria Operations 8.18.3
It's been a while since I freshly deployed Aria Operations, so let's see what it looks like with Operations 8.18.3. For the record, I...
May 8


Aria Operations Inventory
Aria Operations Inventory got an update in 8.18 , here's what it looks like now, this screenshot is taken from 8.18.3 (24521408). Up top...
May 5


Cluster Availability % in Aria Operations
Looking to determine vSphere Cluster availability in Aria Operations? We introduced a metric called Cluster Availability (%) back in...
May 2


Creating Dell EMC PowerEdge Adapter Instances Programmatically in Aria Operations
I published a blog recently focused on creating HPE ProLiant Adapter Instances in Aria Operations. I wanted another one for Dell EMC...
May 1


vCenter Logins with Aria Operations for Logs
I wanted to track vCenter logins across my estate, so started exploring Dashboards and Queries provided by the VMware- vSphere Content...
Apr 29


Updated Script for Automated Adapter Instance Creation in Aria Operations
Last month I published a blog including a script that helped users create HPE Proliant Adapter instances. I've updated that script to...
Apr 22


Aria Operations View Customization
A teammate reached out recently asking why a View wasn't assigning colors to the metrics properly, like this. You'll notice the color...
Apr 19


Created and Deleted VMs with Aria Operations for Logs
I was trying to determine VMs built this month with Aria Operations and came up with this. Top left is a List View leveraging the "interval breakdown" and an "expression transformation. The bottom widget is another List View filtering on VMs built in the last 30 days. This isn't bad, but I'd like to get the VM creator, which isn't available as of 8.18.3. I do have a feature request open for this. If you'd like this Dashboard (and Views) you can get them here . I was also lo
Apr 18


Aria Operations Super Metrics on Properties
I wanted to attach the vSphere Distributed Port Group (DPG) vLAN ID property to the VM/s using it, so I tried creating a Super Metric for...
Apr 13


Tracking adminstrator@vsphere.local Logins with Aria Operations for Logs
If you're using Aria Operations for Logs and have installed the vSphere Content Pack, you'll notice dozens of Dashboards, Queries,...
Apr 12


Creating Aria Operations for Logs Users without SMTP
Part of the Aria Operations for Logs deployment is configuring an SMTP server, which is used to notify new users of their account...
Apr 11


Logging into Aria Operations
Have you ever noticed the Operations authentication dropdown shows your vCenter integrations? You'll notice Local Users, a Microsoft...
Apr 6


Aria Operations 8.18 HF5
Aria Operations 8.18 HF5 just dropped this morning , fixing a few bugs and addressing several VMSAs/CVEs, go get it here ! You can apply...
Apr 1


Automated Adapter Instance Creation in Aria Operations
Years ago we had a tool that helped to automate the creation of Adapter Instances in Aria Operations, allowing you to easily create...
Mar 25


Aria Operations Custom Benchmarks
We've discussed Compliance capabilities in Aria Operations before : DISA, FISMA, HIPAA, PCI, CIS, and ISO. But what if I want to customize a Benchmark, say CIS, and change a few things? Answer: Clone the Alerts/Symptom definitions included in the CIS Benchmark, change what you want, then import them into your new Benchmark, here's how. I've activated and enabled the CIS Compliance Pack as shown here. First you select ACTIVATE FROM REPOSITORY, then once activated you select
Mar 24


Yellow Metrics and Properties in Aria Operations
We've all been in Aria Operations exploring metrics and properties and noticed some of them are yellow, like this VM. What does this mean?...
Mar 23


vCenter TLS, SSL, STS, and Root Certificates in Aria Operations
We've discussed Certificate visibility in Aria Operations previously, but nothing in depth around vCenter Certificates, let's explore....
Mar 21


vSphere Cluster Overcommit Ratios in Aria Operations
People like to run their vSphere Cluster Overcommit ratios at different levels, based on workload types, capacity available, and more. ...
Mar 16


Pull Cluster Capacity Remaining % via Aria Operations API
In the previous blog we talked about Cluster Capacity Remaining in Aria Operations and ultimately showed this to be a metric on the...
Mar 13


Cluster Capacity Remaining In Aria Operations
We've discussed the capacity-related features in Aria Operations before: Assess, Reclaim, and Rightsize. But we've never gone into...
Mar 12


License Visibility with Aria Operations
Aria Operations 8.18 introduced some licensing capabilities. As indicated in the Release Notes , we now have the ability to do the...
Mar 11


Sharing Dashboards and Making Them Editable in Aria Operations
Sharing Dashboards has been around in Aria Operations forever, but making them editable was introduced in 8.12, here's how you do it. ...
Mar 8


Login Messages and Banners in Aria Operations, Operations for Logs, and Automation
For customers running several instances of the various Aria products, it can be helpful to tell users what instance they are actually...
Mar 2
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