You can configure VMware Aria Operations to display menu items related to VMware Aria Operations for Logs and launch VMware Aria Operations for Logs with an object-specific query.

Important: One instance of VMware Aria Operations supports launch in context for only one instance of VMware Aria Operations for Logs. Because VMware Aria Operations for Logs does not check whether other instances are already registered with VMware Aria Operations, you might override the settings of another user.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that you are logged in to the VMware Aria Operations for Logs web user interface as a Super Admin user, or a user associated with a role that has the relevant permissions. See Create and Modify Roles for more information. The URL format of the web user interface is https://operations-for-logs-host, where operations-for-logs-host is the IP address or host name of the VMware Aria Operations for Logs virtual appliance.
  • Verify that you know the IP address or host name of the target VMware Aria Operations instance.
  • Verify that you have the required user credentials. See Minimum Required Permissions for a Local or Active Directory User Account.
  • Integrate VMware Aria Operations for Logs with VMware Aria Operations, see the VMware Aria Operations Configuration Guide.

Procedure

  1. Expand the main menu and navigate to Integration > VMware Aria Operations.
  2. On the VMware Aria Operations Integration page, select the Enable launch in context check box.
    Note: To enable the launch in context functionality, you must have integrated with VMware Aria Operations using administrator privileges.
  3. Click Save.

Results

VMware Aria Operations for Logs configures the VMware Aria Operations instance. This operation might take a few minutes.

Items related to VMware Aria Operations for Logs appear in the menus of VMware Aria Operations.

What to do next

Launch a VMware Aria Operations for Logs query from the VMware Aria Operations instance. See Launch in Context from VMware Aria Operations.