Adjusting the Report Email Header in Aria Operations

In VCF Operations you have the ability to schedule Reports and email them.

They come in looking like this, with a header in bold saying "The attached report was generated and emailed by VMware Aria Operations".

What if you want to change this? Can do, find the file called report-email-template.html on your Operations Cluster Primary Node, which exists in /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/controller/plugins/vcops-view-server-1.0-SNAPSHOT/conf/templates. It'll look like this.

<html>
    <body>
        <h2>The attached report was generated and emailed by VMware Aria Operations</h2>
        <table border="0">
            <tr>
              <td>Report Title:</td>
              <td>{0}</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Report Description:</td>
              <td>{1}</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Report Time:</td>
              <td>{2,date,medium}, {2,time,medium}</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Completion State:</td>
              <td>{3}</td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </body>
</html>

I adjusted mine to this.

<html>
    <body>
        <h2>This report was generated by and emailed from VCF Operations:vcf-operations-bpeterson.broadcom.com (10.167.244.218)</h2>
        <table border="0">
            <tr>
              <td><strong>Report Title:</strong></td>
              <td>{0}</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td><b>Report Description:</b></td>
              <td>{1}</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td><b>Report Time:</b></td>
              <td>{2,date,medium}, {2,time,medium}</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td><b>Completion State:</b></td>
              <td>{3}</td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </body>
</html>

My email now looks like this.

Notice the header has changed as well as the Title, Description, Time, and State, all of which I made bold in the HTML. A couple notes:

• You'll have to do this on all Analytics Nodes of your Cluster

• You'll have to redo this after upgades, as this file gets updated at upgrade time