Recent Tasks in VMware Aria
OperationsLast Updated February 20, 2025
VMware Aria
Operations
The status of the tasks that were
recently initiated from
vRealize
Operations Manager
appears in the Recent Task list. You can determine whether
a task is finished, still in process, or failed. How Recent Tasks
Work
The Recent Tasks page reports
on logged task events, and the log entries appear in the messages area so that
you can troubleshoot failed tasks.
Where You View
Recent Tasks
From the left menu, select , then click
Recent Tasks
. Recent Task
Options
Review the information in the
task list to determine if a task is completed or if you must troubleshoot a
failed task. To see the details about a task, select the task in the list and
review the associated objects and task messages.
Option
| Description
|
|---|---|
Export
| Exports the selected
task to an XML file.
The exported
information, which includes the messages, is useful when you are
troubleshooting a problem.
|
Edit Properties
| Determines how long
the recent task data is retained in your system.
Set the number of days that VMware Aria
Operations keeps the data, after which it is purged
from the system. The default value is 90 days. |
Status drop-down menu
| Filters the list based
on the status value.
|
All Filters
| Filters the list based on the selected column and
the provided values. You can filter the tasks based on the
following criteria.
|
Filter (Object Name)
| Limits the tasks in
the list to those that match the entered string.
The search is based
on a partial entry. For example, if you enter
vm , objects such as
vm001 and
acctvm_east are included.
|
Task
| Name of the task.
For example, Set CPU
Count for VM.
|
Status
| State of the task.
Possible states
include the following values:
|
Started Time
| Date and time when the
task started.
|
Completed Time
| Date and time when the
task finished.
A completed date does
not appear if the task failed or if the maximum timeout is reached.
|
Automated | Indicates whether the
action in the task list is automated, indicated by
Yes or
No .
|
Object Name
| Object on which the
task was started.
|
Object Type
| Type of object on
which the task was started.
|
Event Source | The UUID or the name of the event that triggered
the action automatically. when an event is triggered that is
associated to the recommendation, it triggers the action without
the user intervention. For example, you can automate Alert
recommendations that have an associated action. Automation is
disabled by default. You configure automation in the Override
Alert / Symptom Definitions area of a policy when
you create or edit the policy in . An administrator who
has the
Automation role has
permission to automate actions in the
Override Alert / Symptom
Definitions area of the policy workspace.
|
Source Type
| Authentication source that the user who started the
task used when accessing VMware Aria
Operations . |
Submitted By
| Name of the user who
initiated the task. This column displays the automationAdmin user account for
automated actions that are triggered by alerts.
|
Task ID
| ID generated when the
task, which included one or more actions, was started.
The task ID is unique
for the task for each adapter. If a task includes tasks that ran using two
adapters, you see two task IDs.
If the task is a
delete snapshot action, two task IDs are generated. One ID is for the retrieve
snapshots based on date task, and the other ID is for the delete selected
snapshots task.
|
The Associated Objects are the
objects on which the selected task ran.
Option
| Description
|
|---|---|
Object Name
| Detailed list of
objects that are included in the task selected in the task list.
If the task ran on
only one object, the list includes one object. If the task ran on multiple
objects, each object is listed on a separate row.
|
Object Type
| Type of object for
each object name.
|
Status
| Current state of the
task.
|
The following are columns displayed
for a Workload Optimization task | |
Source Cluster | The source Cluster from which the VM is moved
during Workload Optimization. |
Destination Cluster | The destination Cluster to which the VM is moved
during Workload Optimization. |
Source Host | The source Host from which the VM is moved during
Workload Optimization. |
Destination Host | The destination Host to which the VM is moved
during Workload Optimization. |
Source Datastore | The source Datastore from which the VM is moved
during Workload Optimization. |
Destination Datastore | The destination Datastore to which the VM is moved
during Workload Optimization. |
Completion Date | The date when the task was completed. |
The Messages are the log of
the task as it ran. If the task does not finish successfully, use the logs to
identify problems.
Severity drop-down menu
| Limits the messages
based on the Severity value.
|
Filter (Message)
| Limits the message in
the list to those that match the entered string.
The search is based on
a partial entry. For example, if you enter
id , then messages that contain
Task ID and the phrase
did not complete are included.
|
Severity
| Message level in the
logs.
The severity includes
the following values:
|
Time
| Date and time the
entry was added to the log.
|
Message
| Text of the log entry.
Use the information in
the message to determine why a task failed, and to begin to troubleshoot and
resolve the failure.
The messages appear
with the most recent entry at the top of the list if you do not sort the
columns.
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