Welcome back to the VCF 9.1 series. Next up, What’s New in VCF Operations. The release notes have a great overview of everything that’s new with VCF Operations, but I’ll highlight some of these things in this post. We have some nice UI improvements which better organize the menus based on the workflows you’ll be…
Operations in VCF 9.1 now has the ability to display real-time (2sec) granular metrics for vCenter, ESX, NSX and vSAN. This is essentially bringing ESXTop metrics into VCF Ops for a more streamlined experience. Before we can utilize this, we need to deploy the real-time metrics component into the VCF Management Services Cluster. Deployment Browse…
VCF 9.1 brings more integration for log management with the newest improvements for VCF Operations for Logs. Until now, this component was either a standalone appliance VM or a cluster – with VCF 9.1 the Ops for Logs functionality is brought into the VCF Management Services Cluster and fully managed via VCF Operations. We’ll start…
I’ve been playing with the Aria Operations Management Pack Builder over the last week, and have started another educational/tech-demo to integrate Aria Operations with Ubiquiti UniFi. This MP will give a quick overview of your UniFi environment, with interactive widgets. Selecting the UniFi device in the top left will populate the Uplink Graphs, Device Utilization…
My latest blog series has covered the creation of a custom management pack for Aria Operations to monitor phpIPAM, mostly as an educational / technical demo project.In this post we’ll cover the management pack installation and a showcase about the new dashboard we have to visualise the IP Addressing space, and how it links to…
Welcome back again!In Part 1 we covered how to authenticate to your API endpoint.In Part 2 we covered how to create API requests, turn the API responses into Aria Ops Objects, and configured the relationship hierarchy of those objects.In Part 3 we covered the MP Import & Configuration, then created some Views, Super Metrics and Dashboards to visualise the…
Welcome back again! In Part 1 we covered how to authenticate to your API endpoint.In Part 2 we covered how to create API requests, turn the API responses into Aria Ops Objects, and configured the relationship hierarchy of those objects.In this post we will build the MP, import it to Aria Operations and start to build some…
Welcome back to this Aria Operations Management Pack Builder series, in Part 1 we covered how to authenticate to your API endpoint. In this post we can get to the fun stuff. We’ll create some API calls to pull subnet and IP information from phpIPAM, and create some relationships (e.g. Subnet -> IP Address ->…
If you want to extend your Aria Operations monitoring to 3rd party environments, there are some pre-made management packs for a number of popular applications.But what if you can’t find what you need? If it has an API, we can build it without writing code! For this example, I’m going to build a Management Pack…
In Part 3 of the VCF 9 SSO series, we’ll be integrating VCF Operations, Logs and Automation with the Identity Broker. First up – Operations. Log into Operations as the Local Administrator, browse to Fleet Management/Identity and Access. Click on Operations appliance. Click Continue and then we can select the Identity Broker cluster. We’ll get…