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A content pack for VMware Aria Operations for Logs is a special type of dashboard group that is read-only to everyone. A content pack can be imported into any instance of VMware Aria Operations for Logs. VMware delivers a default content pack with VMware Aria Operations for Logs that is designed for VMware-related log information. Similarly, Dell has developed a custom content pack for PowerMax log information. It can be downloaded at the VMware Solution Exchange in the Cloud Management Marketplace. It is also available from within the application directly in the Marketplace, as shown in Figure 85.
This content pack contains both dashboards and user-defined fields. All the widgets that make up the dashboards contain an information field that explains the purpose of the graph. The PowerMax Content Pack is not required in order to use VMware Aria Operations for Logs with the PowerMax. However, it is recommended as a good starting point for helping to categorize all the log information coming from the array. It is read-only and free to use.
Included below are the seven dashboards that make up the current content pack. They are defined as follows:
An example of the overview dashboard is shown in Figure 86.
In a large environment with numerous log messages, it is difficult to locate instantly the data fields that are important to you. VMware Aria Operations for Logs provides runtime field extraction to address this problem. You can dynamically extract any field from the data by providing a regular expression.
Within the PowerMax Content Pack, Dell has preconfigured user-defined fields for the most commonly appearing objects in the log files. All the fields have the prefix "dell_pmax_" so they can be readily identified. As some PowerMax logs present data differently, more than one user-defined field is required to represent an object. An example is the thin pool field. The fields are self-explanatory.
In addition to the dashboards, the PowerMax Content Pack also contains preconfigured Alerts and Queries.
The PowerMax Content Pack displays existing log information in the database. For the PowerMax, Solutions Enabler, Unisphere for PowerMax, and eNAS/SDNAS can be configured to send logs over syslog to VMware Aria Operations for Logs. For more information about how this configuration is done and about the PowerMax content pack, see Using the Dell PowerMax Content Pack for VMware Aria Operations for Logs.