Configuring your first solution

Now that you have installed vRealize Operations and configured user access control, it’s time to configure what we want to monitor.

As we discussed in previous chapters, management packs extend vRealize Operations capabilities to third-party products and technologies. We will be discussing further management packs later in this book, but for now, we will just mention that a management pack includes data adapters. A data adapter is a software component that collects data from an external data source and transforms the data into a format that vRealize Operations can process.

By default, the vSphere solution is installed when you install vRealize Operations. This is the first solution that you must configure. ...

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