We've discussed the vCommunity Management Pack a few times already, just so you have all the articles in one spot here's the list: vCommunity Management Pack for VCF Operations vCommunity Management Pack for VCF Operations Part 2 vCommunity Management Pack for VCF Operations Part 3 vCommunity Management Pack for VCF Operations Part 4 vCommunity Management Pack for VCF Operations Part 5 Onur Yuzseven dropped the latest version of the VCF Operations vCommunity Management v0.3.0

In our last blog we discussed how to create a general API Client/Token to be used to access the VCF Operations 9.1 API. This blog will detail how to create an API Token for an SSO User. First, log into VCF Operations using your SSO credentials. Once logged in click the user icon top right. Click Generate API Token. Click GENERATE. Give it a Name, TTL, Description and click GENERATE API TOKEN. You now have your token, OIDC Issuer URL, and Token Endpoint URL, which you will ne

We've discussed authenticating with the VCF Operations API a couple times before: Authenticating with the Aria Operations API Authenticating to the VCF Operations API using vIDM Credentials This blog will discuss how to authenticate with the VCF Operations 9.1 API using vIDB Tokens, assuming you're running an integrated instance of vIDB. First, log into VCF Operations and go to Manage - Fleet Management - Identity & Access - VCF Overview and select our Identity Broker. From

For years we've been trying to get the Datastore Device Backing Extent Name in VCF Operations, commonly referred to as the NAA ID. To that end, we've been working to capture this property with the vCommunity Management Pack, which we will have news on soon. Earlier today I was discussing this with a customer and he said "you can already get that". My response was "Really, how?!". And he showed me, here's how. To start, have a look at the Datastore Metrics provided OOTB, s

There are two "admin" accounts in VCF Operations, one for the application itself and another in the OS. The application admin account is the one you use to administer VCF Operations itself, this is the one you can log into the UI as well as the admin UI with. To reset the application admin password you can do it two different ways: via the admin UI located at https://your_ops_fqdn/admin, then Administrator Settings - Change Administrator Password. When changing the admin p

If you're running VCF Operations 9.0 or 9.0.x and collecting data from NSX Manager/s, you might have come across this two Metrics: Specifically, NSX Manager Node Health Score and Node Status. I couldn't find either of them in the documentation (I've submitted feedback asking for updates), so I dug into them a bit and here are the details. NSX Manager Node Status is being pulled directly from NSX Manager, it is capturing this Status. The NSX Manager Status options are: Up, De

If you're running VCF Operations 9.1 you'll notice this small (but very powerful) new feature, allowing us to exclude VMs from the Rightsizing and/or Reclamation engines, here's what it looks like. Selecting EXCLUSION SETTINGS presents the exclusion criteria, which is based on vSphere Tags on VMs. Clicking in the Select Tags field presents all available VM vSphere Tags in Operations. I've selected the Function: Database vSphere Tag, to filter out my Database VMs. Once I clic

We've discussed the vCommunity Management Pack for VCF Operations several times here (and Hardware vCommunity): vCommunity Management Pack for VCF Operations vCommunity Management Pack for VCF Operations Part 2 vCommunity Management Pack for VCF Operations Part 3 vCommunity Management Pack for VCF Operations Part 4 Hardware vCommunity Management Pack for VCF Operations In the Part 2 Blog we discussed the ability to monitor Windows Services and Events, but we skipped over a sm