You may not know but vROps has an internal certificate that may expire. If you won’t catch it on time, you will be in the trouble. You may have the situation that you won’t be able to log into the Admin UI. The cluster is offline and you won’t be able to bring it online,…
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vROps 8.5 Hot Fix! Fixing EP Ops adapter, SNMP Trap Plugin, memory heap size and many more!
After upgrading my vRealize Operations Manager to 8.5 I received an alert stating that: In Redescribe section I saw that EP Ops Adapter has status not working However once I checked Administration -> Inventory -> Adapter Instances, I could see that EP Ops Adapter is collecting data: Here is a Run List: Take a snapshot…
Read moreUpgrade vRealize Operations 8.x to newest 8.5 version
It is time to upgrade vROps to the newest version. You can perform in-place upgrade from any 8.x version. I strongly recommend to run per-upgrade check. To perform upgrade you will need to : Download pre-check tool Download one of 3 upgrade packs: To upgrade from vRealize Operations 7.5 to vRealize Operations 8.5, you must…
Read moreHow to add solution to vROps
Solutions are delivered as PAK files that you upload, license, and install. When you add solutions, you configure adapters that manage the communication and integration between vRealize Operations Manager and other products, applications, and functionality. On the menu, select Administration and in the left pane select Solutions > Repository. Click Add/Upgrade to install other management packs. The wizard includes three pages where…
Read morevROps – how to change Hostname, IP, or DNS
I was deploying new vROps 8.4. After deployment I could not connect my vCenter by hostname, only by IP, so that indicated that DNS was not working. For some reason wizard did not pass my DNS settings and I ended up with Google DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 So how to go about it to change…
Read moreHow to use req.conf file
If you need to generate CSR file, however like for example for vROps you need to use OpenSSL, but you need to add SAN or multiple SANs, req.conf is your solution: Sample file for one dns name to req.conf Copy the below to the server that is in need of the certificate. Edit the CN…
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As far as version 8.4 I could not find CSR generator, so to generate CSR one need to use OpenSSL If you don’t have OpenSSL on your machine the easiest way is to SSH to your vROPs node and run commands from there: Generate a key pair by running this command: Use the key to…
Read morevROps cert thumbprint and trust issue
After renewing certificate for one on my vCenters and refreshing connection with vROps, I was not able to re-connect NSX appliance. The error messages was: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.exception.VlsiCertificateException: Server certificate chain is not trusted and thumbprint doesn’t match Here is my playbook to fix the issue: In vROps navigate to Administration->Management->Certificate Find and delete the old…
Read moreHow to find object’s internal ID in vROps
Go to Administration tab and click on Inventory. Select from the inventory pane object you are interested in. 3. Click the “columns” icon toward the bottom of the screen. 4. Check the box for “Internal ID” and click OK. 5. Now you will see the Internal ID listed for the adapter type. Scroll over until…
Read moreHow to upgrade VMware vRealize Operations Manager
Take a snapshot of your current vROPs VM before running the upgrade The upgrade assessment tool (APUAT) generates 2 types of reports: The first report is relating to Metric reductions, usage of reduced metrics in custom content and proposed workaround. The second report is doing pre-upgrade system checks and returning failures, if there are Upgrade…
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