Aria Operations generated reports display a creation date in the past

Products

• VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) 8.x
• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)
• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

When generating reports from a View in Aria Operations, the column Creation Time displays a date in the past.

Cause

This is the Creation Time column is for the objects the report was ran on, not the report itself.

This is outlined in this document:

• Object List Widget - https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/aria/aria-operations/8-18/vmware-aria-operations-configuration-guide-8-18/using-widgets/widget-definitions-list/object-list-widget.html

Option	Description
Creation Time	Displays the date, time, and time zone of the creation of an object that was created in the inventory.

Resolution

If the Object Creation Time column is not desired then uncheck the option "Show Object Creation Date" and the column will not display in the view, and the column will not show up in any report's generated from the view.

 

Additional Information

Object List Widget - https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/aria/aria-operations/8-18/vmware-aria-operations-configuration-guide-8-18/using-widgets/widget-definitions-list/object-list-widget.html 

Please see this document on the List View Settings for this setting and others: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/aria/aria-operations/8-16/vmware-aria-operations-configuration-guide-8-16/using-vcops-views/create-and-modify-a-view/list-view.html 

Option	Description
Show Object Creation Date	Select to display the date the object was created.