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Contents VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration 5 1 Monitoring Your Horizon Environment 7 Using the Horizon Dashboards 7 Using the Horizon Reports 17 2 Maintaining vRealize Operations for Horizon 19 Pair the Broker Agent with a Horizon Adapter Instance 19 Modify the Broker Agent Service Logging Level 20 Reissue Horizon Desktop Authentication Tokens 20 Change the Desktop Pools to Monitor 20 Change Horizon Events Database Credential Settings 21 3 Troubleshooting a vRealize Operations for H
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VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration provides information about how to use VMware vRealize™ Operations Manager™ to monitor a VMware Horizon™ with View™ environment.
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1 Monitoring Your Horizon Environment When you install the vRealize Operations for Horizon solution, preconfigured Horizon dashboards and predefined Horizon report templates appear in the vRealize Operations Manager user interface. You can use these Horizon-specific dashboards and reports along with the standard vRealize Operations Manager object monitoring features to monitor your Horizon environment.
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration Table 1‑1. Horizon Dashboard Summary (Continued) Horizon Dashboard What It Shows When To Use It “Horizon User Sessions Dashboard,” on page 10 Metrics and performance information for all types of sessions, including VDI desktop sessions, RDS desktop sessions, and application sessions. n Identify and troubleshoot poorly performing remote sessions “Horizon VDI Pools Dashboard,” on page 10 Metrics and performance information for VDI pools.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Your Horizon Environment Horizon Overview Dashboard The Horizon Overview dashboard shows the overall status of your Horizon environment. Use the Horizon Overview dashboard to visualize the end-to-end environment, its underlying environment, and alerts. The Horizon Top Alerts widget shows the alerts of the greatest significance for Horizon objects.
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration Horizon User Sessions Dashboard The Horizon User Sessions dashboard provides a quick view of all types of sessions running in your Horizon environment. The widgets on the dashboard are organized into three columns: the left column contains widgets for VDI desktop sessions, the middle column contains widgets for RDS desktop sessions, and the right column contains widgets for application sessions.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Your Horizon Environment n The colored rectangles in the VDI Desktop Pool VMs and VDI Desktop Pool Sessions widgets represent particular objects. For example, in the VDI Desktop Pool VMs widget, each rectangle represents a particular virtual machine. You can point to a rectangle to view basic information about its associated object.
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration Horizon Applications Dashboard Use the Horizon Applications dashboard to view the status and performance of application pools and their associated farms, RDS hosts, application sessions, application instances, and application users. The Horizon Applications dashboard is specific to Horizon with Horizon 6.1 and later environments. Note You can hide dashboards that are not relevant to your Horizon environment.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Your Horizon Environment n You can use the Running Application/Processes & Users widget on the horizon Desktop usage dashboard to obtain information about in-guest processes and their resource usage for Desktop session objects. n Use the Use VDI Desktop Resource Consumptions widget to view user consumptions for sessions.
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration Retrieve In-Guest Process Data for Session Objects You can use the Session Process widget on the Horizon Remote Session Details dashboard to obtain information about in-guest processes and their resource usage for Horizon session objects. Session objects include VDI Desktop Session, RDS Desktop Session, and Application Session. Prerequisites Verify that you have selected the Horizon Remote Session Details dashboard from the dashboard list.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Your Horizon Environment n Use the User Resource Consumption to see how many resources are used by each user in the selected RDS host. The data include information such as user name, pool name, cpu, disk, memory, and network. Retrieve In-Guest Process Data for Host Objects You can use the RDS Host Processes & Users widget on the Horizon RDS Host Details dashboard to obtain information about in-guest processes and their resource usage for View host objects.
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration Understanding Broker Agent Metrics Although the broker agent metrics on the Horizon Adapter Status dashboard are accurate, their values might be misleading. Because these metrics correspond to different activities within the broker agent, they are updated at different intervals. For this reason, some metrics might appear to be stale or not up-to-date.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Your Horizon Environment n vRAM experience shows the vRAM performance of each VM in Horizon environment with a heat map. This heat map widget has several built-in configuration: VM memory swap and VM RAM usage%. n vRAM relationship shows the related object of the selected VM in the vRAM experience widget. n vRAM chart shows the VM data trend according to the selected configuration of the vRAM experience widget.
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration Table 1‑2. Summary of Horizon Reports (Continued) Template Name Horizon Application Usage Report Horizon User Session Statistics 18 Recommended Objects Report Content n Horizon Pod Application Pool Application usage information in last 7 days(by default), including Application pool name, pool's farm name, application launch times, application peak concurrent instances, and application total usage time.
Maintaining vRealize Operations for Horizon 2 If your Horizon environment changes after the initial configuration of the broker agent, you can modify the broker agent settings on the Horizon Connection Server host where the broker agent is installed.
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration 4 Type the adapter server key and confirm the server key for the Horizon adapter and click Pair to start the pairing process. The status of the pairing process appears in the status area of the wizard. 5 After the pairing process succeeds, click Next till you are at the Configure The Broker Agent Service wizard. 6 Restart the Broker Agent service. 7 Click Next and Finish.
Chapter 2 Maintaining vRealize Operations for Horizon Procedure 1 Log on to the Horizon Connection Server host where the broker agent is installed with a domain user account. Local accounts do not have the necessary privileges to configure all settings. 2 From the Start menu, select VMware > vRealize Operations Horizon Broker Agent Settings.
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Troubleshooting a vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation 3 If problems occur after you install and configure vRealize Operations for Horizon, you can collect log files and send the files to VMware for technical support.
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration Download vRealize Operations for Horizon Broker Agent Log Files If the vRealize Operations for Horizon broker agent does not operate as expected, you can download the broker agent log files and send the log files to VMware for support. By default, broker agent log files are purged after one week. Procedure 1 Log in to the Horizon Connection Server host where the broker agent is installed as an administrator. 2 Navigate to C:\ProgramData\VMware\vReali
Chapter 3 Troubleshooting a vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation 4 Point to the icon in the Collection State column to see whether vRealize Operations Manager should be collecting data for the adapter instance object. The collection state indicates whether vRealize Operations Manager should be collecting data for the object. 5 6 Option Description Collecting Object is set to collect data. Not Collecting Object is set to not collect data. Starting Collection is starting.
VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration What to do next If you discover problems with a Horizon adapter instance, you can check the log files for error messages. See “Horizon Collector and Horizon Adapter Log Files,” on page 26. Horizon Collector and Horizon Adapter Log Files You can view collector and Horizon adapter log files in the vRealize Operations Manager user interface. Log files are organized in log type folders.
Index A M about 5 adapter log files 26 adapter logs 23, 26 administration 19 authentication 20 monitoring a Horizon environment 7 monitoring desktop pools 20 B broker agent reconnection 19 broker agent logs 20, 24 D dashboards 7 desktop agent, log files 24 desktop pools 20 E events database 21 R reconnecting broker agent 19 reports 17 S security tokens 20 selecting desktop pools 20 session objects 14 T tokens 20 troubleshooting 23 V View RDS Host Details Dashboard 14 H Horizon adapter status 24
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