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2 Replies Last post: Jul 13, 2009 10:27 AM by MK2 @ EC Power  

vCenter Alerting Weirdness posted: Jun 23, 2009 1:42 PM

Click to view jamieabbott's profile Enthusiast 23 posts since
Jan 16, 2006
Hi all,

Having a strange issue with alerting using vCenter 4 along with ESX4. Changing the actions on an alarm to send an email appears to be working fine, but the alarms are not showing at all in the vSphere Client at all.

Example 1: Create a custom alarm to trigger whenever a VM is renamed. Action: send an email. This works fine, creating both an email and appearing in the client under triggered alarms.

Example 2: Using the existing alarms, add the action to send an email when examples such as "Cannot connect to storage" or "Host connection failure" are triggered. Test by removing one of the paired cables. Result: email successfully received with the alert details, but nothing shows at all in the vSphere Client, so no alarm anywhere to show this happened.

Are we missing something here?

Many thanks

Jamie

Re: vCenter Alerting Weirdness

2. Jul 13, 2009 10:27 AM in response to: jamieabbott
Click to view MK2 @ EC Power's profile Novice 7 posts since
Aug 14, 2008
Those are considered "info" type alarms and show up under the Tasks and Events tab. I was getting paged with a 'Host connection failure' and when I logged in I saw no alarm. I later found the messages under Events.

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