Creating symptoms

First, let’s see how we can create a symptom definition. vRealize Operations comes out of the box with more than 600 symptom definitions. I recommend you first spend some time getting yourself familiar with them as much as possible. Before creating a new one, make sure an existing definition doesn't exist that matches your needs, by using the symptom definition search and filter options vRealize Operations provides. Otherwise, you may end up creating new definitions when there is an already existing one which can satisfy your requirements.

For the purpose of this example, let’s say we have a company policy which states that we should be alerted if a VM is configured with more than 16 GB of memory. Let’s see how we can create ...

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