VMware Aria Operations 8.17.1

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After You Log In

After you log in to
VMware Aria Operations
 from a web browser, you see the newly designed Launchpad in the Home page. You can set any dashboard to appear in the home page, beside the Launchpad. Click the
Actions
 menu on a dashboard that you want to set as the landing page and select
Set as Home landing page
. To remove the dashboard as the home landing page, click the
Actions
 menu on the relevant dashboard and select
Reset from Home landing page
.

Home page When You First Log In

If you have logged in using an administrative account, you must set the currency in the
Global Settings
 page. From the left menu, click
Administration
, and then click the
Global Settings
 tile. You can do so from the message that you see in the Launchpad when you log in for the first time. Optionally, you can close the message. Once you set a currency, you cannot change it. As an administrator, you must also first set up a cloud account or configure an adapter before you can start using
VMware Aria Operations
.
The following message in the Launchpad indicates that
VMware Aria Operations
 is in the evaluation mode or grace period:
No valid license found on any of your vCenters. You are currently in grace period or using an evaluation license, please apply a license to one of your vCenter Servers.
 For more information on licensing, see the "About VMware Aria Operations Licenses" topic in the
VMware Aria Operations
 Configuration Guide
.
After logging in you land on the Launchpad and if you see a message like, "
VMware Aria Operations internal certificates will expire on dd/mm/yyyy. Please install a new certificate before the expiry date. For details, see KB 71018
", you must upgrade your internal certificates for
VMware Aria Operations
 using the certificate renewal PAK file from the
VMware Aria Operations
 Administrator interface. For more information, see the KB article 71018.

Launchpad After Cloud Accounts Are Configured

Beside the
Launchpad
 tab, you see the
Multi-Cloud Overview
 tab. To know more about the Multi-Cloud Overview, see the topic, Monitoring Multiple Cloud Accounts in VMware Aria Operations. On top of the Home page is the search bar. The search bar is available on all pages of
VMware Aria Operations
. To know more about the search capabilities, see the topic, Enhanced Search Capability.
The Launchpad helps you quickly get started with configuring and using
VMware Aria Operations
. The Launchpad replaces the existing Quick Start page and provides unified use-case based, easy-to-follow workflows in the UI, to represent key supported capabilities of
VMware Aria Operations
.
The Launchpad page is divided into the following sections:
Pillars of Operations
Helps you start a workflow based on the key operative areas of
VMware Aria Operations
. Displays the following cards:
  • Observability
  • Capacity
  • Cost
  • Compliance
  • Sustainability
When you click on any one of the cards, it takes you to a page that displays ways in which you can leverage that pillar of operation in
VMware Aria Operations
. When you are on any of these pages, click
Learn More
 in the top banner to understand the features of the product available to you for that pillar of operation and to understand any prerequisite steps.
Applications
Helps you manage your business applications and applications. Displays the following cards:
  • Business Applications
  • Applications
Infrastructure
Helps you monitor and evaluate the data based on your environment type, identifying trends in object behavior, calculating possible problems, and future capacity for objects in your system based on these trends. It displays alerts when an object exhibits defined symptoms. Displays the following cards:
  • vSphere
  • vSAN
  • NSX
  • Horizon
  • Kubernetes
When you click on any one of the cards, it takes you to a page that displays ways in which you configure, manage and use the adapters. When you are on any of these pages, click
Learn More
 to understand how to configure and use the adapter.
VMware Cloud
Helps you monitor and evaluate the data based on your VMware Cloud environment type. It identifies trends in object behavior, calculating possible problems and future capacity for objects in your system, based on the trends. Alerts you when an object exhibits the defined symptoms. Displays the following cards:
  • VMware Cloud Foundation
  • VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Azure VMware Solution
  • Google Cloud VMware Engine
  • Oracle Cloud VMware Solution
  • VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
When you click on any one of the cards, it takes you to a page that displays ways in which you configure, manage and use the adapters. When you are on any of these pages, click
Learn More
 to understand how to configure and use the cloud adapter.
Public Cloud
Helps you monitor and evaluate the data based on your VMware Cloud environment type, identifying trends in object behavior. It calculates possible problems and future capacity for objects in your system based on the trends. Alerts you when an object exhibits defined symptoms. Displays the following cards:
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Provider
Click on any of the public cloud adapter cards to configure the cloud account if you already have not done so.
Integrations
Displays the following cards:
  • Automation Central
  • Outbound Plugins
  • Content Repository
  • Developer Center

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