Author: Thomas Kopton

Super Metric, SuperMetric, vRealize Operations, vROps

Exclude “Aggregate” Instanced Metric using vRealize Operations Super Metric

11/01/2022 | by Thomas Kopton | 1 Comment

As you know vRealize Operations is collecting tons of various metrics. Some of these metrics are so-called “Instanced Metrics” and disabled in the default configuration in newer vROps versions. A list of disabled instanced metrics for e.g. Virtual Machine object type is available here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations/8.6/com.vmware.vcom.metrics.doc/GUID-1322F5A4-DA1D-481F-BBEA-99B228E96AF2.html#disabled-instanced-metrics-18 If you need any of those metrics, you can enable …

JSON, vRealize Log Insight, Webhook

Quick Tip – Programmatically Update vRealize Log Insight Webhook Token

22/12/2021 | by Thomas Kopton | 1 Comment

The Webhook feature in vRealize Log Insight is a great way to execute automation tasks, push elements in a RabbitMQ message queue or start any other REST operation. Many endpoints providing such REST methods require a token-based authentication, like the well-known Bearer Token. vRealize Automation is one example of such endpoints. It is pretty easy …

vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, vRLI, vROps

vCenter Events as vRealize Operations Alerts using vRealize Log Insight

14/11/2021 | by Thomas Kopton | 1 Comment

As you probably know vRealize Operations provides several symptom definitions based on message events as part of the vCenter Solution content OOTB. You can see some of them in the next picture. These events are used in alert definitions to raise vReaalize Operations alarms any time one of those events is triggered in any of …

vRealize Operations, vROps

vRealize Operations AMQP Integration using Webhooks

16/05/202113/11/2021 | by Thomas Kopton | 3 Comments

With the version 8.4 vRealize Operations introduced the Webhook Outbound Plugin feature. This new Webhook outbound plugin works without any additional software, the Webhook Shim server becomes obsolet. In this post, I will explain how to integrate vRealize Operations with an AMQP system. For this exercise, I have deployed a RabbitMQ server but the concept …

Wavefront

Wavefront by VMware and Log Ingestion

07/02/202107/02/2021 | by Thomas Kopton | Leave a Comment

Motivation In my last post, I have described how to ingest power consumption data provided by the vzlogger project into vRealize Log Insight and how to extract the actual metrics from the log message. That setup is working since days as expected but the primary use case for vRealize Log Insight is intelligent logging and …

vRealize Log Insight, vRLI

Energy Consumption Monitoring using SML Data and vRealize Log Insight

31/01/2021 | by Thomas Kopton | 1 Comment

It all started with my last electricity bill. Shortly after I have recovered from the shock and made sure that I really do not have any aluminum smelter running in my basement, I decided, I need some kind of monitoring of my electric energy consumption. Insights into data is the first and probably most important step …

vRealize Operations, vROps

Monitoring vSphere HA and Admission Control Settings using vRealize Operations

20/12/2020 | by Thomas Kopton | 1 Comment

vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) and Admission Control ensure that sufficient resources are reserved for virtual machine recovery when a host fails. Usually, my customers are running their vSphere clusters in either N+1 or N*2 configurations reflected corresponding Admission Control settings In one of my previous blog posts, I have described how vRealize Operations helps with …

vRealize Operations

Custom Compliance Management using vRealize Operations

28/11/2020 | by Thomas Kopton | Leave a Comment

As you probably know vRealize Operations provides several Compliance Packs basically out-of-the-box (“natively”). A simple click on “ACTIVATE” in the “Repository” tab installs all needed components of the Compliance Pack and allows the corresponding regulatory benchmarks to be executed. “Regulatory benchmarks provide solutions for industry standard regulatory compliance requirements to enforce and report on the …

vRealize Operations

Capacity Management for n+1 and n*2 Clusters using vRealize Operations

15/11/2020 | by Thomas Kopton | 1 Comment

When it comes to capacity management in vSphere environments using vRealize Operations customers are frequently asking for guidelines how to setup vROps to properly manage n+1 and n*2 ESXi clusters. Just as a short reminder, n+1 in context of a ESXi cluster means that we are tolerating (and are hopefully prepared for) the failure of …

Dashboard, vRealize Operations, vROps

Checking SSL/TLS Certificate Validity Period using vRealize Operations Application Monitoring Agents

24/10/202025/10/2020 | by Thomas Kopton | Leave a Comment

In my 2019 article “Checking SSL/TLS Certificate Validity Period using vRealize Operations and End Point Operations Agent” on VMware Cloud Management Blog (https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2019/05/checking-ssl-tls-certificate-validity-period-using-vrealize-operations-and-end-point-operations-agent.html) I have described how to check the remaining validity of SSL/TLS certificates. The method back then was to utilize the End Point Operations Agents. Since vRealize Operations 7.5 new Application Monitoring capabilities …