Metrics and Properties Details

You can select the attribute type to include in your policy so that VMware Aria Operations can collect data from the objects in your environment. Attribute types include metrics, properties, and super metrics. You activate or deactivate each metric, and determine whether to inherit the metrics from base policies that you selected in the workspace.

How the Collect Metrics and Properties Workspace Works

When you create or customize a policy, you can override the base policy settings to have VMware Aria Operations collect the data that you intend to use to generate alerts, and report the results in the dashboards.

To define the metric and super metric symptoms, metric event symptoms, and property symptoms, from the left menu click Configure > Alerts, and then in the right pane, click Symptom Definitions.

Where You Override the Policy Attributes

To override the attributes and properties settings for your policy, from the left menu click Configure > Policies > Policy Definition, and then click Add to add a policy or select the required policy. In the right pane, click Edit Policy to edit a policy. In the Create or Edit policy workspace, click Metrics and Properties. The attributes and properties settings for the selected object types appear in the workspace.

You can also edit the metrics and properties while working on the objects under the Environment Tab. In the Metrics tab under Environment, click the Foundation Policy drop-down and select Edit Metrics Collection.

Table 1. Metrics and Properties Options

Option	Description
Actions	Select one or more attributes and select activate, deactivate, or inherit to change the state and KPI for this policy.
Filter options	Deselect the options in the Attribute Type, State, KPI, and DT drop-down menus, to narrow the list of attributes. Activated. Indicates that an attribute will be calculated. Activated (Force). Indicates state change due to a dependency. Deactivated. Indicates that an attribute will not be calculated. Inherited. Indicates that the state of this attribute is inherited from the base policy and will be calculated. Inherited. Indicates that the state of this attribute is inherited from the base policy and will not be calculated. The KPI determines whether the metric, property, or super metric attribute is considered to be a key performance indicator (KPI) when VMware Aria Operations reports the collected data in the dashboards. Filter the KPI states to display attributes with KPI activated, deactivated, or inherited for the policy.
Object Type	Filters the attributes list by object type.
Page Size	The number of attributes to list per page.
Attributes data grid	Display the attributes for a specific object type. Name. Identifies the name of the metric or property for the selected object type. Type. Distinguishes the type of attribute to be either a metric, property, or super metric. Adapter Type. Identifies the adapter used based on the object type selected, such as Storage Devices. Object Type. Identifies the type of object in your environment, such as StorageArray. State. Indicates whether the metric, property, or super metric is inherited from the base policy. KPI. Indicates whether the key performance indicator is inherited from the base policy. If a violation against a KPI occurs, VMware Aria Operations generates an alert. DT. Indicates whether the dynamic threshold (DT) is inherited from the base policy.