Creating symptoms, recommendations, and alerts

Now that we have a good understanding of what symptoms, recommendations, actions, and alerts are, let’s see how we can create new ones and tie them together.

Note

As mentioned earlier, actions are predefined and new actions cannot be created in vRealize Operations.

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...