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In my previous post (https://thomas-kopton.de/vblog/?p=2198), I detailed how to track HA-induced Virtual Machine restarts in VCF Operations, including the required symptoms, alert definitions, and REST Webhook notifications. However, in larger setups, with potentially over 20 VMs per ESX host, receiving 20 individual notifications is impractical. This simply creates alert fatigue and undermines the entire alerting …
Someone recently asked me if there’s a straightforward way to notify Virtual Machine owners as soon as their VMs were affected by an HA Event. Apparently, suitable alarm definitions are not available out-of-the-box in VCF Operations, and the customer asked for a solution. Scenario The scenario is therefore quite simple: First Approach Initially, I considered …
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 …
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 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 …
In a series of recent blog posts, I’ve delved into the fascinating realm of VMware Aria Operations, uncovering its remarkable capabilities in analyzing energy consumption, energy costs, and carbon emissions attributed to diverse elements within a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). Beyond just elucidating these features, I’ve also spotlighted the seamless integration of Aria Operations …