VMware Aria Operations 8.17.1

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Defining Recommendations for Alerts

You can create recommendations that are solutions to alerts generated in
VMware Aria Operations
. The recommendations are intended to ensure that your network operations engineers and virtual infrastructure administrators can respond to alerts as quickly and accurately as possible. A recommendation can contain links to useful Web sites or local runbooks, instructions as text, or actions that you can initiate from
VMware Aria Operations
.
  1. To define recommendations, from the left menu, click
    Configure
    Alerts
    , and then in the right pane, click
    Recommendations
    .
  2. Click
    Add
     and enter the following details.
    Option
    Description
    Description
    Enter the description of what must be done to resolve the triggered alert.
    The description can include steps a user must take to resolve the alert or it might be instructions to notify a virtual infrastructure administrator.
    This is a text field.
    Create a hyperlink
    To create a hyperlink, enter a description, select the text, and click the Hyperlink icon to make the text a hyperlink to a Website or local wiki page.
    Action (Optional)
    Adapter Type
    Select an adapter type from the drop-down list to narrow down the list of actions displayed in the Actions field.
    Action
    You can add an action as a method to resolve a triggered symptom or a generated alert. Actions must already be configured in
    VMware Aria Operations
    .
    You must provide text in the text box to describe the action before you can save the recommendation.
  3. Click
    Save
    .
These actions, named
Delete Unused Snapshots for Datastore Express
 and
Delete Unused Snapshots for VM Express
 appear. However, they can only be run in the user interface from an alert whose first recommendation is associated with this action. You can use the REST API to run these actions.
The following actions are also not visible except in the alert recommendations:
  • Set Memory for VM Power Off Allowed
  • Set CPU Count for VM Power Off Allowed
  • Set CPU Count and Memory for VM Power Off Allowed
These actions are intended to be used to automate the actions with the
Power Off Allowed
 flag set to true.

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