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!

In this lab I don't have Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager, so we'll apply it locally. Then log into Operations for Logs and go to Management - Cluster. Select UPGRADE CLUSTER. Back on the Management - Cluster page it will look like this. Hope this was helpful, enjoy!

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.

All available vROps Actions can be found here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager com.vmware.vcom.core.doc/GUID-0A1440B8-A34F-4FBD-8247-912EC2DB89D8.html There are others Actions made available by other management packs, specifically the vRO management pack, but let's use the vCenter ones for now. for VM Express" stanza: Change automationPolicy="None" to automationPolicy="context", like this: To pick Documentation showing what you need is available here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager

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!

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.

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!

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

Now that we've upgraded Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) to 8.18 and loaded the Aria Operations, Log into ASLCM, go to Lifecycle Manager - Environments - select your environment - then the Automation available now that the 8.18 binaries have been loaded, click UPGRADE Once complete, you can confirm back

We can also ingest Alerts from other platforms like Microsoft SCOM, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Solarwinds NPM, and more via Management Packs.

I'll apply to one environment via the admin UI and another environment via Aria Lifecycle Manager. Next, let's do another environment via Aria Lifecycle Manager. Whenever I do these, I check for Aria Lifecycle Manager updates first via Settings - System Upgrade - No upgrades available, next let's check for updated Product Support Packs. Back to Settings, go to Binary Mapping - Patch Binaries - CHECK PATCHES ONLINE Click the download arrow

Aria Suite this past week: Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Automation, Aria Lifecycle Manager The VMware Cloud and Public Cloud tiles give you the ability to view and manage the respective constructs It provides insight into building Management Packs with the Management Pack Builder or the Integrations It also gives the user access to the VMware Aria Community: developer.vmware.com and communities.vmware.com Back to the Launchpad, you'll notice two more tabs: Multi-Cloud Overview and in my case Troubleshooting

They key here is to recognize that the VMware Infrastructure Health Management Pack is providing these

In an effort to explore some new management packs included in Aria Operations 8.12, I'm upgrading one First, let's grab the upgrade PAK and the pre-assessment tool from Customer Connect. Once downloaded, let's run the Assessment, which you do by applying that PAK file. Back on the Software Update, looks like it's done. For more information, check out the VMware Cloud Management YouTube Channel!