Category: vRops

vRops API | Super Metric name

Posted Michael RyomLeave a commentPosted in vRops

This is gonna be a short one. If you have been following my blog you will know that I have been using vRops API quite a bit lately and all in all, I’m quite happy with the way it works and the data you can get out of it. There are of course room for improvement. One of the things that currently doesn’t work that well, are Super Metrics. If you know Super Metrics, this is a way to create new metrics which is created from other metric(s). The problem with Super Metrics is the name it’s given by vRops. An […]

Exploring vRops Internal API

Posted Michael Ryom2 CommentsPosted in Script, vRops

Continuing from my last blog post I will show you some more of vRops API capabilities, this time it vRops Internal API. So if your new to the vRops API or just need some more background of how to use it please start by reading my previous blog post vRops API consumed with Powershell   First a disclaimer: This is not supported by VMware! I post this purely for educational purpose. This should NOT be used for production. Again THIS IS NOT SUPPORTED.   Exploring vRops Internal API This time I’m going to show vRops private / unsupported API, which […]

vRops API consumed with Powershell

Posted Michael Ryom9 CommentsPosted in Script, Vcops, vRops

vRops have been out for sometime now, and a lot of new features have been added, not to talk about a whole new user interface experience. The future looks bright for vRops. Another great feature is a REST / RESTful api. This what I’m going to talk a bit about, and more so show vRops API consumed with Powershell. First thing to know is how to get a hold of the vRops API and the documentation for it, and if you should wish to use it, there’s also a java and python client. I prefer to use a plugin for Firefox […]

Log insight – vCOPS Content Pack

Posted Michael RyomLeave a commentPosted in Log Insight, Script, Vcops, vRops

Log insight – vCOPS Content Pack Log insight’s vCOPS Content Pack was released together with vCops 5.8, this content pack lets you get the same great insight into your vCops environment as log insight provides for your vSphere environment. There are three tasks to setting up vCops content pack for vCenter Log insight. Downloading and installing the content pack. Setting up vCops to syslog to Log insight. Connecting Log insight to vCops, so that Log insight can send alerts to vCops. Downloading and installing vCops content pack for Log insight If you have not already downloaded the content pack, lets start […]

vCops Forced password change

Posted Michael RyomLeave a commentPosted in Vcops, vRops

Short after vCops 5.8 was released I upgraded, all went smooth. But then the other day, I had to restart the appliance, after waiting a while and I was still not able to login to the web gui. I open up a console to the two VMs, only to see the both VMs were stuck at boot waiting for a password change. So I typed in the old password and a new one and shortly after vCops was up and running again.   Well as it turns out had I just read the release notes properly, I would have know […]

vCops remote DB access

Posted Michael Ryom2 CommentsPosted in Vcops, VMware, vRops

UPDATE: I still get hit on this blog post – So just for the record this blog post is obsolete! If you are running vCops I suggest you upgrade to vRops asap and then take a look at my blog post around the vRops API – vRops API consumed with Powershell I posted this on twitter and postbin earlier this year, but now that I’ve got the site up and running, I thought I would write it here also. This started as a wish to get some of the data out of vCops in order to do a centralized capacity management. I […]