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\"'NiCE<\/a>
‘NiCE VMware addendum’ enhances VMware monitoring, tuning alerts to ‘manual intervention’ required alerting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘NiCE VMware addendum’ enhances VMware monitoring, tuning alerts to ‘manual intervention’ required alerting. The NiCE folks have been around for some time as a trusted Microsoft partner, creating additional monitoring functionality across Microsoft products.\u00a0 Having completed a number of projects implementing the VMware pack, it’s time to share the configuration and alert report capabilities.<\/p>\n

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Quick Download HTTPS:\/\/GITHUB.COM\/THEKEVINJUSTIN\/NICEVMWAREADDENDUM\/<\/a><\/h4>\n

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Changes to Nice vmware pack<\/h4>\n

Key breakdown of VMware ESX environment monitoring<\/p>\n

\"NiCE<\/a>
NiCE VMware monitoring features for ESX, vSphere, vSAN environments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Adjustments to vendor pack to further the mantra ‘alert when manual intervention required’.<\/p>\n

Set monitor alerts to multiple samples over an hour (i.e. compute and performance of ESX environment)<\/p>\n

Reports by team (requires regular expression updates for environment servers owned by each team)<\/p>\n

Monitor reset logic, and service monitorType (count logic for X failures over Y time, before alert)<\/p>\n

Overrides to change vendor pack provided discoveries, rules, monitors<\/p>\n

Remove alert noise for unmanaged objects in ESX environment<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Customize pack for environment<\/h4>\n

Customize the ‘NiCE VMware addendum’ pack for specific environment. This means updating group discoveries, and GUIDs for group specific overrides.\u00a0 Further updates are required to update server naming conventions for team virtualization reports.<\/p>\n

Classes\/groups created for pack<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"VMware<\/a><\/p>\n

Discoveries<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breakout of Discoveries that need pattern updates to match<\/p>\n

Find\/Replace ##ESXHostDataStoreNamingConventions## with names to exclude<\/p>\n

Example of regular expressions for multiple customers<\/p>\n

\"VMware<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Update disable guest machine alerts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Disable guest machines in ESX environment to disable alerts.<\/p>\n

Find ##ESXGuestServersDiskUsageNamingConventions##<\/p>\n

Replace with relevant guest naming conventions<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Example template\/guest\/virtual machine names typically disabled<\/p>\n

\"Update<\/a><\/p>\n

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Service MonitorType <\/strong><\/p>\n

Service MonitorType adds Samples and Intervals to alert after consecutive failures (x failures in y minutes then alert )<\/p>\n

\"VMware<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

Rules, Monitors, Recoveries<\/strong><\/p>\n

List of workflows used to troubleshoot\/resolve problems<\/p>\n

\"VMware<\/a><\/p>\n

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Documentation<\/h4>\n

NiCE VMware management pack https:\/\/www.nice.de\/nice-vmware-mp\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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