5.2 Manual Metering with vRealize Operations Reports
5.2.1 Metering Configuration
Metering requires the use of super metrics and a report to perform the necessary calculations. The steps in this section show how to import preconfigured super metrics and reports to automate metering and reporting.
Figure 10. Super Metric Import and Object Type Association
2. Set the Object Type for each super metric as shown in the following table.
Table 4. Super Metric Object Type Associations
Super Metric | Adapter Type | Object Type |
VCPP EPOps Agent in VM Count | EP Ops Adapter | EP Ops Agent |
VCPP EPOps Agent Count | EP Ops Adapter | Operating Systems World |
VCPP EPOps Agent Physical Count | EP Ops Adapter | Operating Systems World |
VCPP Monitored OSI Count | VMWARE | vCenter Server |
VCPP Monitored VM Count | VMWARE | vCenter Server |
3. Enable super metrics in the policy editor for highlighted object types as shown in the following figure.
Figure 11. Enable Super Metrics in Policy Editor
4. Navigate to Dashboards / Reports.
5. Import the attached reports.
Figure 12. Import Reports