Whether you are running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) or standalone vRealize LifeCycle Manager instance managing your vRealize products, the following management pack for vRealize Operations will help give a health monitoring dashboard to your solutions. You can monitor capacity growth over time as well as certificate monitoring.
You can obtain the management pack couple of different ways. One way is through the VMware Marketplace, download the pack and upload to the vRSLCM via SCP.
Always check the Marketplace carefully for management pack versions, publisher and release notes.
The other method to access the Marketplace through the vRealize Lifecycle Manager
In the lab I downloaded the pack and uploaded it to the following location on the appliance
Once uploaded, jump into the vRSLCM appliance, you can see here in the Environment section it shows no information available for Health and the ‘i’ icon explains what we need to do.
From the vROps Environment, click ‘View Details’, once inside the vROps environment, click on the ellipses and you will a pre-built action to install the SDDC Management Pack.
Once prompted I placed /data/marketplace and click Discover, this found the file I downloaded and uploaded. Click Submit
The Request page updates to Successfully deployed
After about 15-20 minutes, you will find health is Green now.
What to do next? Check out the newly installed dashboards in vROps.
