{"id":18364,"date":"2016-09-12T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/?p=18364"},"modified":"2017-02-07T07:59:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T06:59:34","slug":"runecast-analyzer-analysis-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/runecast-analyzer-analysis-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Runecast Analyzer analysis - pt.2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Runecast Analyzer<\/a> is a\u00a0proactive issue prevention solution for your VMware vSphere environment that offers some analysis to check the status<\/strong> of your infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Once the product has been installed and configured, the scan of your environment produces some reports<\/strong> ready to be analyzed.<\/p>\n

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Blog series<\/h2>\n

Runecast Analyzer setup\u00a0\u2013 pt.1<\/a>
\nRunecast Analyzer analysis \u2013 pt.2<\/p>\n

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Access the Dashboard<\/h2>\n

Login to the appliance by entering the\u00a0correct credentials then click Login<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Dashboard<\/h4>\n

From the Dashboard you have a global overview<\/strong> of the status of your\u00a0environment with some info like the number of issues<\/strong> found, configuration items<\/strong> with issues and the top 10 configuration items<\/strong> with the highest number of issues.<\/p>\n

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Inventory<\/h4>\n

From the Inventory you can check a specific component<\/strong> of your virtual infrastructure with four available categories: Compute, VMs, Storage and Network. From the\u00a0Inventory<\/strong> menu, select the category and the desired component to analyze (i.e. cluster<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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In the right pane, the system displays the issues found related to the selected component. Click on the plus \"+<\/strong>\" symbol for\u00a0the details. You can also\u00a0use the Filter<\/strong>\u00a0function to filter the issues by Severity<\/strong> or Source<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The description of the selected warning.<\/p>\n

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Issue List<\/h4>\n

This view\u00a0displays all the issues found in the inventory<\/strong> showing the number of objects affected by the problem.<\/p>\n

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All KBs<\/h4>\n

This view shows the list of used KB articles<\/strong> used for analysis without showing\u00a0the actual issues detected on your environment.<\/p>\n

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Configuration analysis<\/h2>\n

This section displays the configuration issues<\/strong> that were detected during the scan of the environment and analyzing the configuration settings.<\/p>\n

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KBs Discovered<\/h4>\n

From the KBs Discovered you can check the detected issues\u00a0derived<\/strong> from VMware Knowledge Base articles.<\/p>\n

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Best Practices<\/h4>\n

The configuration items<\/strong> are checked against VMware\u00a0best practices.\u00a0The result of the analysis is reported in the following way:<\/p>\n