Recommended
Actions Widget
Recommended
Actions
WidgetThe Recommended Actions widget displays
recommendations to solve problems in your
vCenter Server
instances. With recommendations, you can run actions on your data centers, clusters, hosts,
and virtual machines. How the
Recommended
Actions Widget and Configuration Options Work
Recommended
Actions
Widget and Configuration Options WorkThe Recommended Actions widget appears on the Home
dashboard, and displays the health status for the objects in your
vCenter Server
instance. At a glance, you can see how many objects are in
a critical state, and how many objects need immediate attention. From the Recommended Actions widget, you can focus in
on problems further by, for example, clicking an object where the alerts triggered,
and by clicking an individual alert.
You can edit the Recommended Actions widget on the Home
dashboard, or on another dashboard where you add the widget. With the widget
configuration options, you can assign a new name to the widget, set the refresh
content, and set the refresh interval.
The Recommended Actions widget includes a
selection bar, a summary pane, a toolbar for the data grid, and alert information
for your objects in a data grid.
Where You Find the Recommended Actions
Widget
The widget might be included on any of your custom
dashboards. From the left menu, click to see your configured dashboards.
To customize the data that appears in the dashboard
widget, from the left menu, click . To create your dashboard, from the left menu, click . From the
Dashboards
panel, click
Create
. To edit your dashboard, from the left menu, click . From the Dashboards
panel, select the
dashboard you want to edit and select . Toggle between the Views
and Widgets
option to
view and add a widget or view to the dashboard. The widgets list panel displays a
list of all the predefined widgets. Drag a widget to the dashboard workspace in the
upper panel.Recommended Actions Widget Selection
Bar and Summary Pane
Option | Description |
|---|---|
Scope | Allows you to select an instance of vCenter Server , and a data center in that instance.
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Object tabs | Displays the object types with the number of
objects affected in parentheses. You can display the actions for
virtual machines, host systems, clusters, vCenter Server instances, and datastores. |
Badge | Select the Health, Risk, or Efficiency badge to
display alerts on your objects. Health alerts require immediate
attention. Risk alerts require attention in the immediate future.
Efficiency alerts require your input to reclaim wasted space or to
improve the performance of your objects. For each badge, you can
view critical, immediate, and warning alerts.
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Search filter | Narrows the scope of the objects that appear.
Enter a character or a number to search and display an object. When
a filter is active, the name of the filter appears below the Search
filter text box. |
Recommended Actions Widget Toolbar
Options
The toolbar allows you to address an
alert, and to filter the alert list.
Option | Description |
|---|---|
Cancel Alert | Cancels the selected alert. You cancel alerts when
you do not need to address them. Canceling the alert does not cancel the
underlying condition that generated the alert. Canceling alerts is effective if
the alert is generated by triggered fault and event symptoms because these
symptoms are triggered again only when subsequent faults or events occur on the
monitored objects. If the alert is generated based on metric or property
symptoms, the alert is canceled only until the next collection and analysis
cycle. If the violating values are still present, the alert is generated again.
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Suspend | Suspends an alert for a specified number of minutes. You suspend alerts
when you are investigating an alert and do not want the alert to affect the
health, risk, or efficiency of the object while you are working. If the problem
persists after the elapsed time, the alert is reactivated and it will again
affect the health, risk, or efficiency of the object.
The user who suspends
the alert becomes the assigned owner.
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Quick Filter | Narrows the search to one of the available filter types. For
example, you can display all alerts that are related to the
Compliance Alert Subtype. |
Recommended Actions Widget Data
Grid Options
The data grid displays the alerts that
triggered on your objects. To resolve the problems indicated by the alerts, you can
link to the alerts and the objects on which the alerts triggered.
For more information, see Accessing Alerts VMware Aria Operations.
Option | Description |
|---|---|
Criticality | Criticality is the
level of importance of the alert in your environment. The alert criticality
appears in a tooltip when you hover the mouse over the criticality icon.
The level is based on
the level assigned when the alert definition was created, or on the highest
symptom criticality, if the assigned level was
Symptom Based .
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Actionable | When an alert has an associated action, you can run the action on
the object to resolve the alert. |
Suggested Fix | Describes the recommendation to resolve the problem. For example,
for Compliance alerts, the recommendation instructs you to use the
vSphere
Hardening GuideYou can find the
vSphere Hardening Guides |
Name | Name of the object for
which the alert was generated, and the object type, which appears in a tooltip
when you hover the mouse over the object name.
Click the object name
to view the object details tabs where you can begin to investigate any
additional problems with the object.
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Alert | Name of the alert
definition that generated the alert.
Click the alert name
to view the alert details tabs where you can begin troubleshooting the alert.
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Alert Type | Describes the type of
alert that triggered on the selected object, and helps you categorize the
alerts so that you can assign certain types of alerts to specific system
administrators. For example, Application, Virtualization/Hypervisor, Hardware,
Storage, and Network.
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Alert Subtype | Describes additional
information about the type of alert that triggered on the selected object, and
helps you categorize the alerts to a more detailed level than Alert Type, so
that you can assign certain types of alerts to specific system administrators.
For example, Availability, Performance, Capacity, Compliance, and
Configuration.
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Time | Date and time that the alert triggered. |
Alert ID | Unique identification for the alert. This column is hidden by
default. |
Recommended Actions Widget
Configuration Options
On the title bar of the widget, click the
Edit Widget
icon to configure the widget.The configuration options are grouped
into one or more sections. You can select the objects on which you want to base the
widget data and refine the objects in the following sections. Each section filters
the objects further and pushes the filtered objects to the next section. The widget
data is based on the objects that are the output of the last section.
The
Configuration
section
provides general configuration options for the widget.Option | Description |
|---|---|
Title | Enter a custom title that
identifies this widget from other instances that are based on the same widget
template.
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Configuration | |
Refresh Content | Activate or deactivate the automatic refreshing of the
data in this widget. If not activated, the widget is updated only when the
dashboard is opened or when you click the Refresh button on
the widget in the dashboard. |
Refresh Interval | If you activate the Refresh
Content option, specify how often to refresh the data in this
widget. |
Self Provider | Indicates whether the objects
for which data appears in the widget are defined in the widget or provided by
another widget.
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