Determine how to have vRealize Operations monitor your objects, and how to notify you about problems that occur with those objects.
vRealize Operations Administrators assign policies to objects or object groups and applications to support Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and business priorities. When you use policies with objects or object groups, you ensure that the rules defined in the policies are quickly put into effect for the objects in your environment.
With policies, you can:
- Enable and disable alerts.
- Control data collections by persisting or not persisting metrics on the objects in your environment.
- Configure the product analytics and thresholds.
- Monitor objects and applications at different service levels.
- Prioritize policies so that the most important rules override the defaults.
- Understand the rules that affect the analytics.
- Understand which policies apply to objects or object groups.
vRealize Operations includes a library of built-in active policies that are already defined for your use. vRealize Operations applies these policies in priority order.
When you apply a policy to an object or an object group, vRealize Operations collects data from the objects based on the thresholds, metrics, super metrics, attributes, properties, alert definitions, and problem definitions that are enabled in the policy.
- Maintenance: Optimized for ongoing monitoring, with no thresholds or alerts.
- Critical Production: Production environment ready, optimized for performance with sensitive alerting.
- Important Production: Production environment ready, optimized for performance with medium alerting.
- Batch Workloads: Optimized to process jobs.
- Test, Staging, and QA: Less critical settings, fewer alerts.
- Development: Less critical settings, no alerts.
- Low Priority: Ensures efficient use of resources.
- Default Policy: Default system settings.
