Category Archives: Lab Infrastructure

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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MongoDB: Test data for performance monitoring

Posted on May 12, 2024 by brian.wuchner

This post will cover loading some test data into our MongoDB instance and generating some queries for performance monitoring. In previous posts we covered creating a MongoDB replica set (here) and configuring the Aria Operations Management Pack for MongoDB (here). … Continue reading →

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Optimizing Operations: Aria Operations Management Pack for MongoDB

Posted on May 12, 2024 by brian.wuchner

In a previous post (here), I covered how to setup a MongoDB replica set to be monitored by Aria Operations in a vSphere based lab. This article will cover the installation & configuration of the Aria Operations Management Pack for … Continue reading →

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Creating a MongoDB Replica Set

Posted on May 12, 2024 by brian.wuchner

I was recently looking at the Aria Operations Management Pack for MongoDB (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations-for-Integrations/9.0/Management-Pack-for-MongoDB/GUID-73744E17-88DD-49A1-8B86-5BD896C874D8.html) and wanted to kick the tires in my vSphere-based lab. To be able to test this management pack, I wanted to deploy a three node MongoDB replica … Continue reading →

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