topic Alarm Condition for Dropped Pings? in VMware vSphere™ Discussions https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/Alarm-Condition-for-Dropped-Pings/m-p/2218660#M24822 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We currently use HPSIM as a tool to monitor dropped pings. I'm trying to minimize mgmt interfaces and wanted to find out if anyone has had any luck in configuring an alarm condition for dropped pings in vSphere? </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:38:28 GMT Lukeage 2018-01-31T14:38:28Z Alarm Condition for Dropped Pings? https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/Alarm-Condition-for-Dropped-Pings/m-p/2218660#M24822 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We currently use HPSIM as a tool to monitor dropped pings. I'm trying to minimize mgmt interfaces and wanted to find out if anyone has had any luck in configuring an alarm condition for dropped pings in vSphere? </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:38:28 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/Alarm-Condition-for-Dropped-Pings/m-p/2218660#M24822 Lukeage 2018-01-31T14:38:28Z Re: Alarm Condition for Dropped Pings? https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/Alarm-Condition-for-Dropped-Pings/m-p/2218661#M24823 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Well, vSphere doesn't natively ping anything, so there's no condition to attach to in vCenter. What you're looking for is a metric-driven alarm and not a condition-driven alarm, and this is something for the likes of vROps.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:53:26 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/Alarm-Condition-for-Dropped-Pings/m-p/2218661#M24823 daphnissov 2018-01-31T14:53:26Z