Category Archives: Lab Infrastructure

Scaling Your Tests: How to Set Up a vCenter Server Simulator

Posted on October 11, 2024 by brian.wuchner

I’ve recently been testing a handful of reporting tools against vCenter Server endpoints. I have several lab instances for various major releases, which allow me to test a wide range of configurations. However, there are some tests that are hard … Continue reading →

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Monitoring MongoDB Enterprise using LDAP Authentication

Posted on August 4, 2024 by brian.wuchner

I had a recent need to dig into MongoDB monitoring with Aria Operations. In those posts, I used a preconfigured Bitnami MongoDB virtual appliance. This virtual appliance used MongoDB Community Edition. As a follow-up, I was looking into if it … Continue reading →

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Event Driven Automation: Domain Controller FSMO role has moved

Posted on July 21, 2024 by brian.wuchner

In a prior post (https://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/scripting/event-driven-automation-with-aria-operations-for-logs-webhooks-and-jenkins/), I wrote about using Aria Operations for Logs to call Jenkins using a webhook to automate a process. In that post, Aria Operations for Logs is watching for a specific vSphere event and when that … Continue reading →

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Event Driven Automation with Aria Operations for Logs, webhooks, and Jenkins

Posted on July 20, 2024 by brian.wuchner

I was recently looking at the VMware Event Broker Appliance fling (https://vmweventbroker.io/). This fling enables a custom function to execute when a vSphere event happens, sort of an ‘if this then that’ approach to vSphere events (https://octo.vmware.com/vsphere-power-event-driven-automation/). As I was … Continue reading →

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Aria Operations Self Health dashboard visibility

Posted on May 25, 2024 by brian.wuchner

In Aria Operations there are several dashboards that are enabled by default to help ensure the Aria Operations environment is healthy. These dashboards are available under Visualize > Dashboards in a folder named VMware Aria Operations. The specific dashboards have … Continue reading →

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