The VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Appliances Health page allows you to view all VCF deployments along with their associated management and workload domains in one place. You can also view the health of the associated management applications such as vCenter, NSX, VMware Aria suite products, and SDDC manager.

Prerequisites

  • Activate and configure the VMware Cloud Foundation Cloud Account in VMware Aria Operations. For more information, see the 'Configuring VMware Cloud Foundation Cloud Account in VMware Aria Operations' topic in the VMware Aria Operations Configuration Guide.

Procedure

  1. Log in to VMware Aria Operations.
  2. From left menu, click Operations and then click VCF Appliances Health.
    The VCF appliances health page displays the list of VMware Cloud Foundation accounts that you can monitor. The first VMware Cloud Foundation account is selected and the overview of the operations of the selected VMware Cloud Foundation account is displayed by default.
  3. You can monitor the VMware Cloud Foundation operations at the account level or the domain level.
    • Account Level. Select a VMware Cloud Foundation account that you want to monitor or use the search bar to locate any particular VMware Cloud Foundation account.
    • Domain Level. Expand the VMware Cloud Foundation account and click a domain to view the operations of any individual domain.
    Table 1. Monitoring the VMware Cloud Foundation Account
    Option Description
    Availability Availability indicates if the management application is reachable.
    Virtual Machines Virtual Machines indicate the availability of the virtual machines on which the management applications run.
    Note: The current availability is based on the 'Summary|Availability' metric value of the virtual machine. For example, VM availability that is less than 50%, is marked as critical, if the criticality of the active symptom definition defined on that metric is set at 50%. The trend is displayed for the last 24 hours only.
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    Services Services indicate the availability of all services associated with the application.
    • Up: Service is available and running. Represented by a green tick icon.
    • Down: Service is not available. Represented by a red exclamation mark icon.
    • Unknown: Service status is unavailable. Represented by a grey question mark icon.

    You can monitor the availability of services that constitute an application at the domain level. Expand the application to view the service names, availability, and trend for each of the services. If the services are based on nodes, you can also view the node names that the service runs on.

    You can sort the services based on availability and use the page navigation to view more services.
    Note: The trend is displayed for the last 24 hours only.
    Passwords Passwords indicate the validity of passwords associated with the applications.
    Certificates Certificates indicate the validity of certificates associated with the applications.
    Active Alerts Displays the active alerts of the whole VMware Cloud Foundation account.

    Click View Alerts to view alerts related to the VMware Cloud Foundation object type. The alerts are categorized as critical, immediate, warning, and info.

    At the domain level, you can view the total number of alerts per domain and click View Alerts to see alerts related to that domain.

What to do next

To view the object hierarchy, you can click the VMware Cloud Foundation account name to view the VMware Cloud Foundation deployment summary tab or click the domain name to view the VMware Cloud Foundation domain objects summary tab. For more information, see the "Summary Tab" topic in the VMware Aria Operations User Guide.