by vMan | Feb 18, 2018 | vRops
Update: yes it still works with 6.7-8.0, no need to change or remove anything the upgrade just works, for 8.1+ users check out the new blog post here With this next post I will share my vRops “Custom Rest Outbound Plugin”, what this plugin allows you to do...
by vMan | Feb 15, 2018 | Powershell, vRNI
#UPDATE 06.07.2018# Since version 3.7 of vRNI the support user can no longer execute cli show-service-status due to permissions, so the line below will need to be updated FROM $commandOutput = Invoke-SSHCommand -SessionId 0 -Command “cli...
by vMan | Jan 21, 2018 | LogInsight, Monitoring, Security
So its been a while since I have posed… I have been a little busy with work and family! I need to generate alerts from vRLI when ever someone logs in using a built in account, multiple failed attempts, creating users, changing passwords etc… for security /...
by vMan | Dec 5, 2017 | vRops
So with this next post I wanted to help explain / break down how to use the suite-api to extract stats, alarms and properties. I already provide a script which does the stats extract (stats on steroids) but I thought some of you might be interested to understand how...
by vMan | Nov 13, 2017 | LogInsight, Powershell, vRO, vRops
When I was building my vRops Custom Rest outbound plugin I wanted to capture the output from vRops to an XML file… this way I could review the output easily! I came up with the following Powershell solution (based off an example from someone else which I can no...
by vMan | Oct 31, 2017 | vRops
This next bug is a silly one…. (tested on vRops 6.6.1.6163035) One of the guys which runs vMug with me asked if I knew a work around to enter a Sender Email Address with a top-level domain (TLD) longer than 6 characters on the Standard Email...
by vMan | Oct 24, 2017 | Powershell, vCenter, vSAN
So this next post is about my experience with vSAN when using multiple storage policies and the headache that comes with managing a large vSAN environment when you have too many cooks in the kitchen!! The environment I help manage has many clusters with many different...
by vMan | Oct 20, 2017 | vRops, vSAN
So recently I was asked to create an alert which would help identify hosts with less than 1 DiskGroups…. unfortunately you wont find a vRops metric at the Host System object which counts the number of DiskGroup…. so I had to create a super metric by taking...
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