An administrator has been tasked with creating an alert in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations with the following settings: Wait cycle: 2 Cancel…

In VMware vRealize Operations (the monitoring component of VCF), the default data collection cycle is 5 minutes. The alert definition settings determine the timing for generation and cancellation.

Wait cycle (2): The system waits for 2 collection cycles after a symptom first triggers before generating the alert. This period is 2 cycles 5 minutes/cycle = 10 minutes.

Cancel cycle (2): After the symptom condition is no longer true, the system waits for 2 collection cycles before cancelling the alert. This period is 2 cycles 5 minutes/cycle = 10 minutes.

The total time elapsed from the initial symptom trigger to the automatic cancellation is the sum of the wait period and the cancel period: 10 minutes + 10 minutes = 20 minutes.

A. 40 minutes: This result would require a total of eight 5-minute cycles, which does not match the configured settings of 2 wait and 2 cancel cycles.

B. 4 minutes: This is incorrect as the default collection cycle is 5 minutes; four minutes is less than a single default cycle time.

C. 10 minutes: This represents the time for either the wait period or the cancel period alone, not the total time from trigger to cancellation.

1. VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.7 Documentation

"vRealize Operations Manager Configuration Guide"

Page 100

Section: "Create an Alert Definition". This section defines the Wait Cycle and Cancel Cycle parameters as the number of collection cycles to wait before generating or canceling an alert.

2. VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.7 Documentation

"vRealize Operations Manager Configuration Guide"

Page 88

Section: "Editing a Policy". This section states

"The collection interval is the time between collections

which is five minutes by default."