Aria Operations Management Pack Builder

With the most recent announcement that many of the Aria Operations Management Packs are going EOGS, it's a good opportunity to re-explore the Management Pack Builder (MPB). We first touched on MPB a couple years ago, during the beta program. Since then, there have been several releases, all of them documented here.

This blog will focus on MPB 2.0 and its deployment, the next in this MPB series will involve the development of a Management Pack itself. MPB 2.0 is available on the VMware Marketplace and can be found here.

Scroll down and click the DOWNLOAD link which will download the OVA file.

Once downloaded, deploy in vCenter.

I've right-clicked the Cluster, next click Deploy OVF Template.

Click UPLOAD FILES, select the MPB OVA, then click NEXT.

Give your VM a name, then click NEXT.

Select a destination compute resource and click NEXT.

Review the details and click NEXT.

Click the "I accept all license agreements" checkbox then click NEXT.

Select your storage option and click NEXT.

Select your network and click NEXT.

Provide the following and click NEXT.

• Initial root password

• Host Network Default Gateway

• Domain Name - the Domain the VM will be on

• Domain Name Servers

• IP Address

• CIDR Prefix Length - CIDR Prefix conversion of the Netmask

Review your configuration and click FINISH. Your VM is now being deployed.

After a few minutes, the VM has been deployed.

Power it on by going to ACTIONS - Power - Power On.

Once powered on, it'll look like this. Let's go check the URL at https://fqdnoriphere.

Default credentials are admin/admin, once you provide those you'll be asked to change the password.

Provide a new admin password.

Click UPDATE and you're in!

Now that MPB has been deployed, we can focus on building Management Packs, which we'll do in the next blog.