This part of the lab is presented as a Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation. This will allow you to experience steps which are too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab environment. In this simulation, you can use the software interface as if you are interacting with a live environment.
The orange boxes show where to click, and the left and right arrow keys can also be used to move through the simulation in either direction.
In this simulation, you will verify that the configuration of vRealize Operations has drifted and remediate that configuration drift.
View the vRealize Operations Configuration Drift
- Click the Manage Environments icon on the navigation pane
- Click View Details for the Rainpole Dev environment
- Click on the vertical ellipsis for vRealize Operations to see the available options
- Click Show Report
- Note the red ! in the Drift Status column indicating an issue
- Click the vRealize Operations Virtual Machine parameter to drill down to the issue
- Click the vROPS PERSISTENCE Configuration parameter to drill down further
- Note that the database retention parameter has changed from 432000 hours to 32000 hours which has caused the configuration drift issue
Remediate the vRealize Operations Configuration Drift
- Click REMEDIATE
- Click the vRealize Operations Virtual Machine configuration parameter
- Click the scroll bar to scroll down the list
- Click the red ! to see the message that the configuration values have drifted from baseline
- Click VROPS PERSISTENCE Configuration
- Click the scroll bar to scroll down the list to the red ! in the second column
- Select the copy icon to copy the correct value to the current configuration
- Note that the current configuration column now has the correct parameter from the baseline
- Click the scroll bar to scroll to the top of the list
- Click REMEDIATE
- Click YES noting that remediation may require the restart of certain services
- Click the Requests icon on the navigation pane. In a live environment, this request will take several minutes to complete.
- Note the REMEDIATION request at the top of the list
- Click the INPROGRESS State
- Click Full View to see all of the configuration parameters
- Click vRealize Operations Virtual Machine
- Click VROPS PERSISTENCE Configuration
- Note that the database retention parameter has been reset to the baseline configuration of 432000
- Click Error Only View and note that there are no errors in remediation
- Click the Manage Environments icon on the navigation pane
- Click VIEW DETAILS for the Rainpole Dev environment
- Click on the vertical ellipsis for vRealize Operations to see the available options
- Click Show Report
- Click Full View
- Note that the Drift Status is green for all configuration parameters. The updates from the performed remediation performed are shown after the next scheduled Drift Report generation interval. This interval can be set in Settings->System Settings->Configuration Drift Interval.
This completes the simulation of verifying and remediating configuration drift for vRealize Operations.
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