Over the weekend we disconnected some network cables and started receiving these alerts (as expected). After plugging everything back in, we continue to receive these alerts. How do we make them stop? Or is there something I still need to review? Below are the two alerts followed by screenshots from vSphere showing that everything is back up. Thanks in advance.
Target: fcfvmh01.fcf.loc
Previous Status: Green
New Status: Red
Alarm Definition:
([Event alarm expression: Lost Network Connectivity; Status = Red] OR [Event alarm expression: Restored network connectivity to portgroups; Status = Green] OR [Event alarm expression: Lost Network Connectivity to DVPorts; Status = Red] OR [Event alarm expression: Restored Network Connectivity to DVPorts; Status = Green])
Event details:
Lost network connectivity on virtual switch "vSwitch2". Physical NIC vmnic1 is down. Affected portgroups:"VLAN10".
Target: fcfvmh02.fcf.loc
Previous Status: Green
New Status: Red
Alarm Definition:
([Event alarm expression: Lost Network Connectivity; Status = Red] OR [Event alarm expression: Restored network connectivity to portgroups; Status = Green] OR [Event alarm expression: Lost Network Connectivity to DVPorts; Status = Red] OR [Event alarm expression: Restored Network Connectivity to DVPorts; Status = Green])
Event details:
Lost network connectivity on virtual switch "vSwitch0". Physical NIC vmnic0 is down. Affected portgroups:"vMotion", "Management Network".
Hi,
Try to disable and re-enable the alarm on vCenter.
Hi,
Try to disable and re-enable the alarm on vCenter.
That appears to have resolved the issue. For the next person...the first thing I tried was to disable all alarms at the host level by right-clicking the host --> Alarm --> Disable alarm actions. That stopped the alarms, but they continued after re-enabling them. Then I finally found where the alarms were configured and disabled and re-enable the specific alarm which resolved the issue as you suggested it might. In my environment, the alarm was set at the server level (above Datacenter in the tree menu). I had a hard time wrapping my head around the message, "This alarm was defined in [object]. Alarm settings are read-only except when accessed through the object where they were defined." I thought it was telling me that I needed to log into the server where it was created and modify the alarm from there, but in hind sight, the object was the server in my case which was the cause for my confusion. Thank you for your help!