Monitoring Remote Objects using an EP OPS agent installed inside a Photon VM.
The version of Photon OS used is 3.0.
The package of EP OPS which has been installed is: vRealize-Endpoint-Operations-Management-Agent-x86-64-linux-7.0.0-9957520.rpm.
vROPS 7.0
Exporting vROps reports continuously using PowerShell
You may come across situations where it makes sense to export vROps reports (continuously) using PowerShell instead of using the build in solutions. There is a very good blog article about how to leverage PowerCLI to extract vROps reports, which you can find here. A huge thanks to @_ryanjan_ for sharing this information and to create and share the excellent helper-module. However, when trying to do export reports using PowerShell, I faced some problems: The report id changes, so we need a variable for that. The exported report must change name each time it is being exported, or any following export will try to use the same name of the report that is already there. This is especially needed when […]
Create an alert for a failed vRO workflow in vRealize Operations Manager
How do you create an alert for a failed vRO workflow in vRealize Operations Manager? You might have noticed when you want to create an alert in vROps for a vRealize Orchestrator workflow, thatout of the box alerts for vRO workflows simply do not exist in vROps. However, should you have installed the content pack for vRealize Orchestrator, you might have seen that workflow executions and failures are displayed in Log Insight. Aha moment! Let’s integrate vRLI with vROps! Requirements: vROps vRLI Content Pack for vROps in vRLI vRealize Orchestrator First steps Make sure your appliances have been properly configured. So this means that you have to integrate vCenter, vRLI and vROps with eachother. Plenty of guides around to do just […]
Creating a SSL certificate using OpenSSL to be used for EPOPS and VROPS
At one of my previous customers, I was asked to look into setting up load balancing for EPOPS agents. Unfortunately there was no PKI infrastructure, so I had to use Open SSL. There is a lot of documentation on how to create self-certificates for vROPS but I didn’t find anything on how to create a custom certificate to be used for EPOPS as well. So what follows is a procedure how to create a vROPS certificate using OpenSSL, which you can use for EPOPS agents as well. Take note that the following has been created using OpenSSL for Windows. Requirements Take note that the NSX load balancer will perform SSL Passthrough and that when you configure the EPOPS agent you […]
VSAN at VMworld – What you can’t miss!
Only a couple of days before the doors at Gran Fira open for a new edition of VMworld in Barcelona! Before packing your bags, I hope you all had a view at the session builder and scheduled the sessions you believe will be most beneficial for you! I would like to make a suggestion to fill these tiny free spaces in your diary. As you know, I’m working on building the VSAN business in the Benelux region. So it probably won’t surprise you that my suggestion is fully packed with storage sessions! Oh and by the way while you are at it. Come and have a talk with my fellow vMusketeers during VMworld! I might have some cool swag for […]
vROPS 7.0 SDDC Health Monitoring Solution Management Pack 5.0 – Support for NSX 6.4.1?
This is just a quick post to show that vROPS 7.0 and the SDDC Health Monitoring Solution 5.0 Management Pack for vROPS, is able to monitor NSX for vSphere 6.4.1 despite the fact that NSX 6.4.1 is not officially supported in combination with the SDDC Management Pack 5.0. Of course the best way forward is to upgrade NSX to a supported version. The following list contains the supported VMware products and the supported versions of those products for the SDDC Health Monitoring Solution Management Pack 5.0. VMware vCenter Server 6.0 U1/U2/U3 latest patch, 6.5.x, and 6.7 VMware NSX for vSphere 6.2.8, 6.2.9, 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.4.2, and 6.4.3 VMware vRealize Automation 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.0 VMware […]