vRealize Operations Manager: Common problems and resolutions

1. Restoring the default dashboards:

Problem: After installing the vRA Mangement Pack, the default dashboards were not shown up and for this we figured out that post_install of Management Pack didn't run. To resolve this we manually imported the dashboards

Resolution:

The below is an example for restoring the vRA default dashboards on vROPs

1. Locate the dashboard file location: /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/vCACAdapter3/conf/dashboards/Dashboards.json
2. Execute the import command by passing the dashboard json file on vROps node:

vrops-mstrn-01:/usr/lib/vmware-vcops/tools/opscli # ./ops-cli.sh dashboard import all /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/vCACAdapter3/conf/dashboards/Dashboards.json

Starting vRealize Operations CLI

2016-10-20 10:15:30,116 Starting command Command: dashboard:import

2016-10-20 10:15:30,404 Connecting to server

2016-10-20 10:15:37,491 Try to login with maintenanceAdmin

SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".

SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation

SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.

2016-10-20 10:15:38,561 Successfully logged in.

2016-10-20 10:15:38,561 Successfully connected to server

2016-10-20 10:15:43,810 Successfully imported dashboard /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/vCACAdapter3/conf/dashboards/Dashboards.json for user [all]. The configuration transformation will be scheduled in background.

2016-10-20 10:15:43,811 Triggered Command: dashboard:import vrops-mstrn-01:/usr/lib/vmware-vcops/tools/opscli #

After this log-in back into the vROps UI and you can notice that all default dashboards are back.

Will update this blog with more problems and resoultions.