With 8.2, and the Ping management pack, vROps is now able to provide up/down status of targets based This blog explored the Ping management pack itself: the ping adapter, the metrics it collects, dashboards pack. pack and the ping adapter, the other via the vSphere management pack and the vCenter adapter. I then cloned the Ping Overview dashboard that comes with the Ping management pack and added two heatmaps

Blue Medora management packs include relationships as well, not only internal to the platform they were For example, the NetApp OCUM management pack establishes the following relationships: In addition to Using the Object Relationships our management pack establishes, we can get him from the Aggregate to pack. That is, they won't be over-written upon management pack upgrade.

The SDDC Health Management Pack gave us some visibility into vCenter Services, but it wasn't super intuitive The VMware Infrastructure Health Management Pack gave us more, but Aria Operations Diagnostics (introduced Looks like the VMware Infrastructure Health Management Pack is still running behind the scenes, it's Back to the vCenter Appliance Availability dashboard, once you've selected a vCenter on the left, the

Pack, which holds vSphere benchmarks, log signatures, and more. This Management Pack is enabled by default in VCF 5.2 (Aria Operations 8.18), it will be visible in 8.18.1 Pack. Pack used to do. Packs respectfully.

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 Once installed, the management pack includes several sample configuration files in /usr/lib/vmware-vcops to use this sample configuration file, you must copy it to the working directly for the ServiceNow Management Pack, which is: /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/servicenow_adapter3/work Once there, configure

So, what are our three options: Ping Management Pack – included with all Aria Operations editions, this packs. First, let’s explore the Ping Management Pack (covered in detail in previous blog ). The Ping Management Pack is included with every edition of Aria Operations and is found in Data Sources Like the Ping Management Pack, these are different than any vSphere objects themselves.

pack and are associated with vSphere objects, but any management pack can have Actions. Now, what if we want to take an action not available with vROps and the vSphere management pack? There is a vRO management pack for vROps that includes an adapter (pointed at the vRO Host), dashboards Documentation on them can be found here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/Management-Packs-for-vRealize-Operations-Manager There are several vRO Workflows bound to vROps Actions upon installation of the vRO management pack,

documentation , the Certificates being highlighted here are those related to your VCF components: vCenter, SDDC Manager Type dropdown, we'll select the Certificates object type from the VMware Infrastructure Health (VIH) Management Pack . If you recall, VIH replaced the SDDC Health Management Pack, and is now being used by Operations Diagnostics

This week we dropped the 9.0 version of the Management Packs included in the Aria Operations for Integrations The highlight here is that these Management Packs no longer require their own license, but rather consume You'll notice the Management Pack for MSSQL Management Pack has its own license and there is an unlimited Let's upgrade the MSSQL Management Packs to 9.0 and remove the old vRTVS license and see what happens Packs for free!

But if we want to open ServiceNow Events, we need the Management Pack for ServiceNow . The Management Pack comes with example configurations file that can be found in $VCOPS_BASE/user/plugins This is just one way we can use the ServiceNow Management Pack, there are several more. Operations aware objects Finally, we can open ServiceNow Alerts directly if you'd like with the Operations Management Pack for ServiceNow.

and Compliance before a few times: Compliance with Aria Operations Aria Operations Custom Benchmarks Manage To activate them you select ACTIVATE FROM REPOSITORY which will install the Management Pack. To find all Symptoms defined by the DISA Compliance Pack go here.

vSAN adapters, NSX Adapters, Aria Automation Adapters, and VCF Adapters vCenter, ESXI Host, and SDDC Manager These are VCF related Certificates being captured by the built-in VMware Infrastructure Health (VIH) Management Pack. Clicking VIEW DETAILS lists the Certificates (vCenter, SDDC Manager, Operations, Logs, NSX, etc), expiration These are also being created by the VIH Management Pack, for more details check out this blog .

Yesterday we upgraded VCF Operations Fleet Manager 9.0 to 9.0.1 , today we'll upgrade VCF Operations For more information on Depot Configuration, Broadcom Product Manager Arun Nukula has written a detailed Go to Binary Management to find new binaries, these will be under UPGRADE BINARIES. Once done your Binary Management - UPGRADE BINARIES tab will look like this. Back in Fleet Management - Lifecycle - Tasks you'll see your upgrade task has finished.

dropped in late November, just getting around to applying them, here's how you do it with Aria Lifecycle Manager Log in to Aria Lifecycle Manager and check for the latest Product Support Packs via Settings - Product Support Packs - CHECK SUPPORT PACKS ONLINE. Back to your Environment, select the Automation tab, then select UPGRADE.

upgrade Aria Operations for Networks to the latest release (which is 6.12), but my Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager Well, because the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager Product Support Pack (PSPack) I had in place didn't support Once back up, confirm it's been applied. I came back this morning and we're done.

As you've probably discovered, we don't have a Management Pack for Redis, so we'll use a Telegraf Agent Log into Operations and go to Operations - Applications - Manage Telegaf Agents, which is a bit of a Back on the VM Summary Page - Metric tab, you'll see the Agent and its metrics/properties.

You can apply it locally via the admin UI or via the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager. go to Software Upate Select INSTALL A SOFTWARE UPDATE and point at your recently downloaded update package Click UPLOAD, follow the prompts, and once done you'll log back into the Admin UI to this. You'll notice the Operations Cluster is back online and the new Version is 8.18.3.24663033. My next blog will show how to do this using the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager, enjoy!

The vRNI Management Pack includes the following: Adapter connecting Aria Operations to Aria Operations I've configured the vRNI Management Pack in my lab, it looks like this. While not required, it is highly recommended that the vROps Management Pack for NSX be up and running Documentation for the management pack can be found here. doing with the vRLI Management pack, enjoy!

Log into your Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager and check for new Product Support Packs (PSP) via Lifecycle Operations - Settings - Product Support Pack - CHECK SUPPORT PACKS ONLINE. Once a new PSP is discovered it will show back on the Product Support Pack page. Which you can apply by clicking APPLY VERSION, then sit back and watch progress. Once done, Automation will show as 8.16.2 back on the Environments page.

Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.16 and Aria Automation 8.16.1 Release Notes Let's get started by upgrading our Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager. Once done, check your Product Support Pack page to confirm you're at 8.16. Once downloaded, you'll see Upgrades available within your Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager Environment. Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager, Aria Operations, and Aria Operations for Logs are now at 8.16 and Aria