4.40 Recommended Knowledge Script Groups

You can find the VirtualCenter Knowledge Script Groups (KSGs) on the RECOMMENDED tab of the Knowledge Script pane of the Operator Console.

All the scripts in the KSGs have their parameters set to recommended values. To run all of the recommended scripts in a KSG at one time, click the RECOMMENDED tab, and then run the KSG on a VirtualCenter resource.

Run the KSG from the Master view, not the VirtualCenter view. In order to use the Discovery_VMware Knowledge Script in a monitoring policy, the view must include root objects, which are not visible in the VirtualCenter view.

The VirtualCenter KSGs enable a “best practices” usage of AppManager for monitoring your VirtualCenter environment. You can use these KSGs with AppManager monitoring policies. A monitoring policy, which lets you efficiently and consistently monitor all the resources in your environment, uses a set of pre-configured Knowledge Scripts to automatically monitor resources as they appear in the TreeView pane. For more information, see “About Policy-Based Monitoring” in the AppManager Help.

A KSG is composed of a subset of a module’s Knowledge Scripts. The script that belongs to a KSG is a different copy of the original script you access from the VirtualCenter tab. If you modify a script that belongs to a KSG, the parameter settings of the original script in the VirtualCenter tab are not affected.

In some cases, default script parameter settings are different when the script is deployed as part of a KSG, as opposed to when it is deployed alone. The default settings of a script within a group depend on its monitoring purpose within the larger group, and on the intended monitoring scope of that group.

If you modify or remove a script associated with the VirtualCenter KSG and want to restore it to its original form, you can reinstall AppManager for VMware vSphere on the repository computer or check in the appropriate script from the AppManager\qdb\kp\VirtualCenter directory.