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Shared Dashboards Aria Operations 8.12

If you’re an IT administrator using VMware Aria Operations (vRealize Operations Manager) version 8.12, you may have encountered issues with shared dashboards after upgrading. This blog post will explore the issue and provide a solution to get your shared dashboards working again. Symptoms of the Problem After upgrading to VMware Operations Manager version 8.12, users […]

Mass notification creator for vROps

The VMware Cloud Foundation plan and preparation workbook contains alert notifications which should be configured in vROps. There are close to 40 notifications that need to be configured. If you need to configure multiple vROps installations on multiple VCF instances then that task becomes time-consuming and error prone. So, I decided to write a script […]

vROps Telegraf check Windows Service

Want to check if a Windows service is running with the new vROps Telegraf agent? I won’t discuss how to install the Application Remote Collector in order to install the Telegraf agent. This blog picksup right after the prerequisites for installation are met and completed. I use the following script to check whether a Windows […]

VM latency sensitivity setting in vROps

So I was approached by one of my fellow vROps buddies @ ITQ. His customer is in need to get some advanced VM settings in vROps. So Kim asked me if I had any experience with that. Not with that particularly, but I’ve some experience in getting 3rd party data into vROps. With that I […]

Restart Stopping Objects in vROps

Here is a quick post about a problem I faced a couple of months back. Every now and then I found that there are some VM objects in the stopping state in vROps. Upon investigation this happened due to an patch script, that tries to set the VMs in a stopped state. But somehow not […]

VM Age in vROps

There is a very good article on the Cattle/Pet analogy. I won’t explain it in detail, as you can simply follow this link and get to know all about it. But in short it comes down to this. You take care of your pets, ea. you patch them and add features to them. Cattle on […]

Helping the community

One of the reasons I joined ITQ about a year ago is that they like to help people. That is one of those qualities that really stand out. And often people tell me that I’m a helping guy myself. Specially in these Corona times we have the help each other out wherever we can. So […]

Trend Micro vRealize Operations Dashboard API

My current customer has been using Trend Micro’s Deep Security Management pack for vRealize Operations Manager. Unfortunately the MP isn’t supported on the latest version of vSphere. And while my customer is bound by government regulation to stay updated, waiting for an update of the MP was not an option. So I was tasked to […]