After a couple of month VMware released an update from the vCenter Operations Manager Appliance. Here is a little documentation about the update:

They resolved a couple of Issues:

• scalability and performance improvements
• default fromName in the Filter plug-in defaults to „Alive“
• Email notifications with SSL or TLS are not supported

The full list of VMware vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise 5.0.1 Release Notes could be read here: http://goo.gl/jgPCb

How to Update the vAPP:

1. Download the PAK file from the VMware Downloads site: http://goo.gl/Jxdor
2. Log in at your vCOPS – Admin Site
3. browse to „Update“
4. select your downloaded PAK file (1) and click on the update(2) button
5.  confirm that the update cannot revert to a previous versin
6. Accept the license agreement an press OK
7. Now confirm the Update
8. After a couple of minutes the update finish

 

If you have a Error message after updating you vAPP like these:

VMware has already KB Article for this issue: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2013360