Upgrade Aria Operartions has overwritten changes made to alert definition

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Changing and tuning default alerts suppressed by lowering severity, wait cycle or symptom changes, all these changes were gone after aria operations upgrade 

 

 

Environment

VMware Aria Operations 

Cause

All customization on default content was overwritten by upgrade process , this is done as per design 

Resolution

As per best practice customer is advised to clone all default content and create the custom one as any default content is always rewritten during any upgrade

 

VMware Aria Operations 8.18.3 Release Notes

Installing and Upgrading VMware Aria Operations
 
Upgrading to VMware Aria Operations 8.18.3 or upgrading any Management Pack (MP), resets out-of-the-box content as part of the software upgrade process. This implies that the user modifications made to default content such as alert definitions, symptom definitions, recommendations, policies, views, dashboards, widgets, and reports are overwritten. You need to clone or backup the content before you upgrade to VMware Aria Operations 8.18.3.
 
This is valid for all versions of aria operations 
 
There is no way to restore this unless you still have snapshots, backups or content backup Creating a Backup