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Aria Automation 8.17
Aria Automation 8.17 dropped today, let's upgrade! I'm running Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) 8.16.0.4 Product Support Pack (PSP)...
May 14, 2024


Send MongoDB Logs to Aria Operations for Logs
Want to send MongoDB logs to Aria Operations for logs? We can do it! In fact, we have a Content Pack for you. Go to Content Packs - ...
May 12, 2024


Aria Operations for Logs Emails
Aria Operations for Logs is up and running and capturing all of your vCenter events, task, and alarms, your ESXi Host logs, and other...
May 9, 2024


Aria Operations Anomalies and Anomalous Metrics
If you've used the Aria Operations Troubleshooting Workbench you know there is a column for Anomalous Metrics. Hovering over the...
May 5, 2024


Aria Operations 8.17.1 HF1
Aria Operations 8.17.1 HF1 dropped yesterday, it addresses several issues: Property last value timestamp is incorrect in the property...
Apr 29, 2024


Aria Operations and ServiceNow Part 4
To this point, we've discussed how to get Aria Operations Alerts to ServiceNow as Incidents and Events. This will blog will show you how to skip Incidents and Events and open Alerts directly in ServiceNow. Like Events, opening Alerts in ServiceNow requires the Management Pack for ServiceNow. This blog will feature version 9.0 of the management pack running on Operations 8.17.1 with ServiceNow Vancouver. Opening ServiceNow Alerts also requires the ServiceNow ITOM module. O
Apr 27, 2024


Aria Operations and ServiceNow Part 3
We first discussed converting Aria Operations Alerts to ServiceNow Incidents via the ServiceNow Plugin. We then showed how to populate the Configuration Item (CI) field on Incidents via Operations Webhooks. There is another ServiceNow construct called an Event, which allows you to call Event Rules, open subsequent ServiceNow Alerts, and more. Nice piece here explaining the difference between ServiceNow Incidents, Events, and Alerts. As discussed in previous blogs, we c
Apr 26, 2024


Aria Automation VM Pricing
Want VM price estimates at build time in Aria Automation, here's how you do it! Once Aria Automation has been deployed you'll first want...
Apr 23, 2024


Aria Operations and ServiceNow Part 2
In our previous blog we explored how to send Aria Operations Alerts to ServiceNow as Incidents, but we weren't able to populate the...
Apr 22, 2024


Aria Operations and ServiceNow
We introduced the ServiceNow Notification Plugin back in Aria Operations 7.5 and have discussed it (and other ServiceNow related items)...
Apr 20, 2024


Pulling vCenter Events into Aria Operations
We've been pulling vCenter Events into Aria Operations for years, but I've never been able to determine exactly which ones, I finally...
Apr 19, 2024


Aria Operations 8.17.1
VMware Aria Operations 8.17.1 dropped last Friday, here are the helpful links: What's New in VMware Aria Operations 8.17.1 Blog VMware...
Apr 15, 2024


Aria Operations Dynamic Thresholds
We previously discussed the algorithms used to determine Aria Operations Dynamic Thresholds (DTs), this blog will detail the logistics...
Apr 8, 2024


Aria Operations Authentication with vIDM
Aria Operations supports several different methods of authentication: local, Active Directory, Open LDAP, SSO SAML, vIDM, and others. ...
Apr 7, 2024


Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager Easy Installer
I've been running Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Automation, all supported by Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) for...
Mar 27, 2024


Aria Operations 8.16 HF1
Aria Operations 8.16 HF1 dropped this morning, it contains all sorts of fixes and addresses dozens of CVEs, details can be found here. ...
Mar 26, 2024


Send Aria Operations Reports to Box
Reports are a powerful way to consume data using Aria Operations! They can be run ad-hoc or scheduled, at which time they can be emailed...
Mar 24, 2024


Average VM Size with Aria Operations
You'd like to know the average VM size (vCPU and Memory) for all VMs in a Cluster, couple different ways to do it, let's explore! First...
Mar 23, 2024


Aria Automation 8.16.2
Aria Automation 8.16.2 dropped last night, let's upgrade! You can find the Release Notes here if you're interested. Log into your Aria...
Mar 22, 2024


Aria Operations Management Pack for VMware Cloud Foundation
Aria Operations 8.10 introduced a new Management Pack we haven't discussed yet, the Management Pack for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)....
Mar 12, 2024


Compliance with Aria Operations
It's been a while since we last discussed Compliance and things have moved around quite a bit since then, so let's review. All...
Mar 11, 2024


Aria Operations 8.16 Intelligent Alerts
Aria Operations 8.16 recently dropped with several new features, a comprehensive list can be found in the Release Notes. In this blog,...
Mar 8, 2024


New Aria 8.16 and 8.16.1 Updates!
On February 20th the original Aria 8.16 and 8.16.1 updates were released, but we quickly pulled them due to a missing feature. They've...
Mar 5, 2024


Aria 8.16 Updates!
Aria updates are here, they were released originally on 2.20.2024. Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Suite Lifecycle...
Feb 27, 2024
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