Monitoring View Server

[chadg156]

Im looking for a way to setup a policy to moinitor View with my RMM tool.  Does anyone know of a list of Event ID's genereated by view that I can moinitor for?  List in like a tech guide?

[kooltechies]

What is that you want to monitor ? View events are logged in the View Event DB for all the View operations. One of the good tools you can use to monitor VMware View environments are through VCOPS (with View Adaptor) .

https://www.vmware.com/products/desktop_virtualization/vcenter-operations-manager-view/overview.html

[chadg156]

I run an MSP so I have a boat load of Vmware installs that I monitor SNMP traps and gets from the hosts and vcenter.  I've created policies based on the list of Traps that can be thrown from hosts and vcenter.  I've been putting in View installs and see that it logs to the event viewer.  To develop my policy I need a list of all the events that it could log.  Then I can monitor the logs for these events.

I'd prefer to not have to put in various tools based on the install that my RMM is in place and I just need the proper information to pull.

I hope that made a bit more sense and didnt seem rambling

[kooltechies]

Makes sense 🙂 this should help you.

http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=1452

http://www.run-virtual.com/?p=768

[chadg156]

I have the Event DB setup...

I'm looking for events that are logged...for example, when the Administror logs in with a bad password you get the following in the Event Log

Log:  Application

Source:  Vmware View

Event ID: 104

ADMIN_LOGIN_FAIL

User login attempt has failed to authenticate to View Administrator

Attributes:

Source=com.vmware.vdi.admin.ui.LoginBean

Time=Sat Jan 26 13:45:12 EST 2013

Severity=AUDIT_FAIL

Node=server.local.lan

Module=Admin

Acknowledged=true

What will I get if there is an issues with creating new VDI vm's in the pool?  What is logged if something goes wrong and new VDI vm's aren;t being created?  Things like that....there has to be a lis of these logged events.  Maybe   I guess what I need to do it just simulate failures and go from there.

[chadg156]

Hmmm...

This is getting closer...just need ot match a few things up.

http://www.manualslib.com/manual/407693/Vmware-View-4-5-Integration-Guide.html?page=14#manual

[AngstNU]

I am working into powershell scripts to monitor sessions of active users in view, this powershell script use by nagios to send alerst via email and sms.

right now the missing part is the performance graph although there is data but not displayed as graph.

here is the script

# Define Critical & Warning levels to alert back to Nagios.

$Critical = 10

$Warning = 8

###############################################################################################

# Set variables to 0

$Count = 0

# Set Nagios State

$returnStateOK = 0

$returnStateWarning = 1

$returnStateCritical = 2

# Add VMware View PowerShell Snapin.

add-PSSnapin "VMware.View.Broker"

# Collect Desktop Information

ForEach ($Result in Get-RemoteSession -pool_id DS7 | Select state)

{

if ($Result.state -eq "CONNECTED")

{

$Count = $Count + 1

}

elseif ($Result.state -eq "Error")

{

$Count = $Count + 1

}

elseif ($Result.state -eq "Agent unreachable")

{

$Count = $Count + 1

}

}

### PerformanceData Output

$NagiosPerfData = "|Active sessions=" + $Count + ";8;10;0"

$NagiosPerfData = $NagiosPerfData -replace " ", ""

if ($Count -ge $Critical)

{

###CRITICAL STATE

Write-Host "Activesessions="$Count" "$NagiosPerfData

((Get-RemoteSession -pool_id DS7)|Where-Object{$_.state -eq "CONNECTED"}) | select username, duraTion #starTime

exit $returnStateCritical

}

elseif ($Count -ge $Warning)

{

###WARNING STATE

Write-Host "Activesessions="$Count" "$NagiosPerfData

((Get-RemoteSession -pool_id DS7)|Where-Object{$_.state -eq "CONNECTED"}) | select username, duraTion #starTime

exit $returnStateWarning

}

else

{

###OK STATE

Write-Host "Activesessions="$Count" "$NagiosPerfData

((Get-RemoteSession -pool_id DS7)|Where-Object{$_.state -eq "CONNECTED"}) | select username, duraTion #starTime

}

exit $returnStateOk