Search for a Specific
Object
As a network operations engineer, you
must locate the customer's virtual machine in
VMware Aria
Operations
so that you can begin troubleshooting the reported problem. You use
VMware Aria
Operations
to monitor three vCenter Server
instances with a total of 360 hosts and 18,000 virtual machines. The easiest way to
locate a particular virtual machine is to search for it. - In theSearchtext box on theVMware Aria Operationstitle bar, enter the name of the virtual machine.TheSearchtext box displays all the objects that contain the string you enter in the text box. If your customer knows that the virtual machine name contains SALES, enter the string and the virtual machine is included in the list.
- Select the object in the list.
The main pane displays the
object name and the
Summary
tab. The
left pane displays and the related objects, including the host system and
vCenter Server
instance.
Look for alerts related to the reported problem for the
object. See Review Alerts Related to Reported Problems.