Category - VMware vRealize Operations

I was trying to install the vRealize Operations Telegraf agent on my VMs by following the documentation. I wrote the steps out in a Salt state file: unzip: pkg.installed install-telegraf: cmd.script: - source: https://cloudproxy.domain.tld/downloads/salt/download.sh - name: /tmp/download.sh -o install -v vrops.domain.tld -u admin -p p@ssw0rd - mode: '0777' Salt takes the source and puts it in the location under name, executing it with the included arguments. However, everytime it ran I would get this:

Overview Back in my operational days, my team and I needed ‘pretty’ reports on all VMs in the environment. In almost every case, we needed to include metrics on Guest OS volumes. Back in vRealize Operations 5.x, 6.x and 7.x, I could never find a way report on all instances of a guest volume on many VMs. It always looked like this: Example of a not-so-pretty filesystem report out of vRealize Operations (8.

Hello again! Today a customer was working with the vRealize Operations 8.0 REST API in Postman and trying to bulk delete “Canceled Alerts”. The documentation in the API states that you need to request a DELETE against the https://{vra-fqdn}/suite-api/api/alerts/bulk API and you should be OK. Well, not exactly. I’ll start this post by assuming that you’ve seen the excellent Postman collection on VMware {code}. This will get you up and running quickly and allow you to login and get an authentication token.

A quick post today! I was trying to configure the vRealize Operations Manager Outbound REST notification plugin recently and I was having a few issues doing a POST or PUT operation against the specified endpoint. Specifically, I was getting the following message: Test was not successful: Failed to post or put to the server. I tried looking around the vROPs Logs section under Administration > Support > Logs but couldn’t find anything specific for Outbound Notification plugins.