You manually configure desktop applications that you want to appear on dashboards and reports.

Procedure

  1. Open the /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/V4V_adapter3/conf/v4v-desktop-app-config.properties file on the vRealize Operations Manager primary node.
  2. Add entries for the desktop applications that you want to monitor.
    Use the name, full-path, pod-name format for application entries. If you do not specify a pod name, the application is monitored on all pods.
    For example, the following entry monitors Microsoft Notepad on a pod named Cluster-SERVER621: 
    myapp,c:\windows\notepad.exe,Cluster-SERVER621
  3. (Optional) Enable application instance monitoring. If you do not enable this feature, the system displays only the desktop applications tier and desktop applications objects.
    1. Open the /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/V4V_adapter3/conf/v4v.properties file on the vRealize Operations Manager primary node.
    2. Change the value of enableDesktopApplicationInstance to true.
  4. Restart all nodes that collect data from the affected pods. 
    service vmware-vcops --full-restart

    These nodes might be remote collector nodes or the primary node. You can also choose to restart the entire cluster.

Results

The configured desktop applications are displayed on vRealize Operations for Horizon dashboards and reports.