vROPS Create Custom Symptom, Alert Definition and Notification Step by Step

 

How to created Symptom, Alert Definition and Notification Step by Step

Create and edit Alert definitions using a combination of symptoms and recommendations that identify problem areas in your environment and generate alerts on which you act to remediate the issues.

Create and edit descriptions of situations which are NOT normal within your environment. Use these symptoms in your Alert definitions.

Create and edit remediation options that you provide to your users to resolve the problems that the generated alert indicates.

Steps to create Symptoms in vROPS….

Login to vROPS 

Click Alerts under Configure

Click on Symptom Definitions

Click Add

Click Add

In Base Object Type -: Type Virtual Machine

In Symptom Type:- Select Properties

Expend Summary

Select vSphere Tag -> Drag and drop

Save

Filter with symptom Name -: “Virtual Machine without Tag”

2. How to create Alert Definition

Now create Alert Definition

Click Next

Select Symptoms -> Filter  -> Type Newly created Symptoms “Virtual Machine Without Tag”

Drag and Drop Symptom 

Click Next and assign Recommendation -> In my case I am not assigning recommendation

Click Next

Select Policies

Click Create 

Now all done 

Click Alert -> under the troubleshooting tower and see all triggered alerts.