Groups Tab on the
Environment Overview Pane
Groups are containers that can contain
any number and type of objects in your environment.
VMware Aria
Operations
collects data from the objects in the group and displays the results
in dashboards and views that you define. How Groups
Work
Groups are installed with
VMware Aria
Operations
, created by an adapter, or created by a user.
Based on the group criteria, you can use groups to organize your environment and
monitor all objects in the group together. You can also assign policies to groups
and make group membership dynamic. For example, if you have a set of vSphere hosts and you
do not want to generate alerts when the host goes into maintenance mode, you can put
the vSphere hosts in a group and assign a policy that includes a maintenance
schedule setting. During the maintenance period,
VMware Aria
Operations
ignores any metrics for those objects and does
not generate any alerts. After the maintenance period ends, VMware Aria
Operations
returns to monitoring the objects and generates
alerts if an outage occurs. Where You Find Custom
Groups
From the left menu, click
Environment
and
then, click Custom Groups
.Custom Group
Options
Click
ADD
button to add a
group. You can only edit, clone, or delete a user-created group. You cannot modify
groups installed with VMware Aria
Operations
or by an adapter. You can click the
Horizontal
Ellipses
to import or export the custom group. The Groups data grid
displays an overview of the state of each group. You can use the All Filters option
to sort the custom groups based on Name, ID, Group Type, and Description
columns.To sort the list of custom groups based on columns, click the column heading of the following columns:
- Name
- Health
- Risk
- Efficiency
- Description
- Members Count
Option
| Description
|
|---|---|
Name
| Select the group name to display a summary of
the group. Select to the right of the name to edit, clone, or delete the group.
|
Summary | Criticality of the health, risk, and efficiency of
any group. Click a group with a red, orange, or yellow criticality
to get more details about potential problems with objects in the
group. |
Members Count | Displays the number of members in the selected
group. |
Policy | Displays the policy associated with the selected
group. |
Dynamic Membership | Displays whether the group is static or dynamic.
The available options are true and false. |
Defined by | Displays who has defined the attributes of the
group. The available options are:
|