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If you are using multiple vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) – Management Packs like Horizon , VSAN , NSX and vCenter and want to monitor their availability of the adapter/POD in terms of whether they are “ Collecting Data ” and get notified via email when the collection of data stops due to unknown reasons. Then go ahead and read further. If you don’t setup the monitoring one doesn't get notified until someone logins to the vROPS Manager and see the adapter status physically. Adapter Status: Collection State/Status: To achieve the above its a 3 steps process. You will have to create the following: Custom Symptom Definition Custom Alert Definition Custom Notification Symptom Definitions We will create four custom Symptom Definition (SD) for Horizon Adapter, Horizon POD as it collects data, vCenter instances and VSAN Adapter. Following are the SD combined: Horizon Adapter Instance Open the vROPS Manager and navigate to Alerts – Symptom Definitions Click on the + Under the Base O...

In this post I will demonstrate the configuration that are required to deploy the VMware Enrollment Server s for High availability and redundancy. This includes two Certificate Authority CA’s and Enrollment Servers My colleague Tarique Chowdhury has an excellent post on the TrueSSO Lab Setup . However in that deployment it talks about a single Enrollment Server and Certificate Authority Server. This post is not a replacement of the Setting Up TrueSSO guide on VMware Pubs. However the below mentioned two sections complement during the configurations for everything else follow the setup guide/blogs: Certificate deployment – Enrollment Agent (Computer). Deploying the Enrollment Agent (Computer) certificate onto this server, we are authorizing this ES to act as an Enrollment Agent and generate Certificates on behalf of users. Both the Certificate Authority Server Enrollment Agent (Computer) certificate needs to be added. They are added one-by-one. The Personal –> Certificate store sh...