Viewing Entity Details
The entity pages provide a
comprehensive outlook of entities that are present in your data center. This information can
range from detailed topologies to show relationships with other entities of your data center to
detailed metrics about an entity.
Think of your entire data center as being composed of
entities and their relationships. For example, a virtual machine is an entity, and the virtual
machine is part of a host which is another entity. Here, the virtual machine and the host
shares a relationship with each other.
VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
provides visibility and information of such entities and
relationships, and numerous other entities and relationships that are part of your data
center.Each entity on
VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
has a dedicated entity page. This page is a collection of widgets and
each widget shows specific information related to the entity. The information provided is both
real time and historical, and an exhaustive list of metrics and properties for the entity. You can expand the
Entities
option on the left navigation panel to view all the entities on VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
. If you want to see more information about entities, then
click on the top-right corner of the page. Time Range Widget
The time range widget enables you to view the state
of the entity at a particular time in the past. It also provides a bird’s eye view of alerts
that were detected across a selected time range.
To access the time range widget, click 
next to the entity name on top of the page, and select the time range that you want
to view.
next to the entity name on top of the page, and select the time range that you want
to view.