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In my previous blog post, I described how to capture and visualize both successful and, more importantly, failed login attempts in NSX environment using Aria Operations for Logs dashboards. With the release of Aria Operations 8.18, VMware has made it even easier to monitor such audit events in vSphere components directly within Aria Operations itself, thanks …
Recently, a customer asked me if it’s possible to monitor or retrospectively see which user performed specific actions in NSX using the tools available in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack — essentially, a typical user actions audit for NSX. Although we don’t have an exact match in the current Aria Operations for Logs NSX …
VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service 3.3 is now GA… We are excited to announce the general availability of VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) 3.3, formerly known as VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Service, alongside vSphere Kubernetes release (VKr) 1.32, previously referred to as Tanzu Kubernetes release. Broadcom Social Media Advocacy
In the first post on the topic of VMware Operations Integration SDK, I showed how I prepared my development environment and how a demo project is created using the triad of mp-init, mp-test, and mp-build. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at which files a simple, REST API-based project consists of, as well …
Recently, I was asked if there’s a way to programmatically read the results of a compliance check for specific ESXi hosts in VMware Aria Operations. The use case here is that the customer wants to utilize these compliance results in an automated workflow. This is an interesting question that highlights the growing need for automation …
SNMP, likely one of the oldest protocols in OSI Layer 7, is still used today in the monitoring environments and offers a very simple way, with SNMP traps, to send messages from one system to another to trigger an action. This action could involve executing an automated workflow. In this post, I describe how the …
The VMware Aria Operations Management Pack Builder is an independent appliance designed for crafting personalized management packs compatible with Aria Operations. This tool offers no-code approach to seamlessly integrate data from external APIs, empowering you to augment VMware and third-party resources by adding new Data, Relationships, and Events effortlessly. However, there are sometimes data sources …
As is likely known to everyone, the integration between VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs involves forwarding alarms generated in Aria Operations for Logs to Aria Operations. If the integration has also established the link between the origin of the log message that triggered the alarm and the object in Aria Operations, the …
As described in the official VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly know as vRealize Log Insight) documentation, you can customize alert names by including a field in the format ${field name}. For example in the following alert definition which will be triggered by VM migration operations the title will contain the name of the user who …
As you all probably know, VMware Aria Operations is providing several energy consumption and sustainability related data at different levels. From the power usage of a single Virtual Machine up to the aggregated data at the vSphere Cluster (Cluster Compute Resource) level. What we are missing, at least as of today, are similar aggregated metrics …