Administration

The Administration page provides information on:

Launch Administrator Console
Product Improvement
HPE Tags and Custom Attributes

To access Administrator Console from vSphere Client:

Navigate to Menu > Administration.
Under HPE OneView for VMware vCenter, click Administration..
The Administration page is displayed.

Launch Administrator Console

HPE OneView for VMware vCenter Administrator Console enables configuration of vCenter server instances.

To configure vCenter server instances:

From Administration page, click Launch Administrator Console link.
The HPE OneView for VMware vCenter login page is displayed.
Log in using username and password.
The HPE OneView for VMware vCenter page is displayed.

The HPE OneView for VMware vCenter provides the following options:

Menu	Options	Description
GENERAL	Activity	This page provides the information on all the activities performed on the appliance. You can filter the information based on: Activities that need attention. Type of an activity — All, Alerts, and Tasks. Status of an activity — All, Critical, and Warning. State of an activity — All, Active, and Locked. Time duration — Today, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Older than 3 months, Older than 1 year, or you can also specify a date range.
MANAGERS	vCenters	Add vCenter — Adds single or multiple vCenters. Edit vCenters — Modifies the details of the selected vCenter. Refresh vCenters — Refreshes the selected vCenter. Delete vCenters — Deletes the selected vCenter.
ADMINISTRATION	Settings	Management VM — configure network and DNS settings. Actions drop down in the page enables you to shut down and restart the appliance. Log Collection — generate logs required for logging a support call. Sessions — display information about all the active sessions in the appliance. Time — display the log in time and date. Upgrade — display the last upgrade activity status and update the appliance to the latest version. Backup and Restore — display the date and time of the last backup taken. Initiate the backup or restore from the backup of the configuration date about the servers, and enclosures in the HPE OneView for VMware vCenter plug-in. Custom Properties — define custom properties for debugging with help from the support personnel. Logging — enable or disable trace-level logging for troubleshooting.
ADMINISTRATION	Users	Add local user — add single or multiple local users as Administrator or Observer. Edit — modify the details of the selected user. Remove — remove a selected user.

Product Improvement

HPE uses Google Analytics to track and document the usage of product user interface. The collected data is used for making product improvement and/or investment choices. You can opt out of tracking from Google Analytics by toggling Allow Product Improvement button .

IMPORTANT:

All the data collected by HPE is used only for product usage know-how and to make future product improvements. Your data privacy is treated with respect. For more detailed information on HPE privacy statement, see HPE Privacy Statement Worldwide page.

HPE Tags and Custom Attributes

The feature enables the user to add the HPE custom tags to all the available hosts in VCenter which are managed by HPE OneView. To manually initiate the auto tagging task, click the refresh button . You can opt out of tagging by toggling Allow tagging feature button .

Following are the different methods of tags creation:

Creating a tag category
Creating a tag
Tag Association
Deletion of unassigned tags

Creating a Tag Category: Under this flow, user will be able to create a category. A tag category has the following properties:

Name — Displays the name of the category.
Description — Provides the description of the category.
Cardinality — Displays the number of tags a category could contain.
Associable Entities — Displays the types of elements to which the tags can be assigned. For example: HostSystem.

NOTE:

At this point, there is only one category available in Vcenter i.e, HPE Infrastructure and all the tags will be added to the same category.

Creating a Tag: After the creation of a tag category, you can create tags within that category. A tag has the following properties:

Name
Description
Category

All the tags will be created under same one Category that is HPE Infrastructure. Following tags will be created in first phase of this implementation.

Based on Model Type
Enclosure Type — Enclosure type will have two tags as C7000 and SYNERGY.

Tag Association: After you create a tag category and create a tag within the category, you can associate the tag with a vSphere managed object on following cases:

At the start of the OVM Service — Assigning the host to the specific tags, If you find the related data from OV.
Manual Tag Update: You can initiate a manual tag update operation.
At the end of Grow Cluster Operation: At the end of successful Grow Cluster operation, grown hosts will be assigned to specific tags.
During Import Cluster/Import Host Operation: At the end of successful import cluster/Import host operation, hosts will be assigned to specific tags.

Deletion of Tags: You can delete all the unused HPE tags which are created by HPE OneView for VMware vCenter. Deletion can be done two following ways:

On thread startup, check all the unassigned tags and delete them.
Manually update from the admin UI which would automatically check for any unassigned tags and deletes them.