Telegraf objects polluting un-associated objects in Aria Operations.

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Using Opensource telegraf agents with multiple plugins creates generic resources not associated with the server polluting the hierarchy in the UI and inventory.

 

Environment

Aria Operations 8.18.X.

Cause

They are generic objects created in the inventory as this is part of a generic parser not supporting namekeys, this has been handled by moving the no-data receiving objects to a nonexisting state by adapter configuration.

Resolution

On Aria Operations Cloud proxy pointing to the application management pack:

1. Take snapshots without memory cloud proxy
2. Edit the configuration properties on Application management pack 

vi /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/AppOSUCPAdapter3/conf/config.properties

change default value MAX_COLLECTION_CYCLE_FOR_NOT_EXISTING_STATE=2016 to MAX_COLLECTION_CYCLE_FOR_NOT_EXISTING_STATE=7

Note:

The value of /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/AppOSUCPAdapter3/conf/config.properties can change while upgrading Aria ops instance, it may be necessary to modify this value again later. 

 

 

Additional Information

Monitoring Application Services and Operating Systems using Open Source Telegraf