Monitoring and Alerting to VM Network Outage

[CharlesBastian_]

I am trying to set up an alert to email out when any of our VMs lose network connectivity. I'm trying the following settings but I do not get any alerts when I kill the network connection.

• Alarm Type: Virtual Machine
  • Monitor for specific events occurring on this suybject...
• Trigger: VM No Network Access
• Status: Alert

I've tried the same settings with a different event (such as power on and power off) and I get an email alert every time. But, with network access I get nothing. For testing, I've reset the IP (so there is no network activity), I've disabled the NIC, and I've tried turning the NIC off in the VMware settings.

Nothing is alerting? Essentially, I jut want an email when any of my VMs happen to lose Internet access for any reason.

Thanks for any assistance.

Another note: I've also tried using different Ethernet Adapter drivers, with no luck.

[Anjani_Kumar]

I believe you need to tweak some settings in your Actions tab. Sharing the screenshot. match the settings and then test them again. I believe it will be fixed.

[CoolRam]

After Setting all those

• Alarm Type: Virtual Machine
  • Monitor for specific events occurring on this suybject...
• Trigger: VM No Network Access
• Status: Alert
• In Advanced(Trigger Condition) you need to select the name of the VM or VMID on which alarm will monitor in case of network outage.
• Then you email ID.

That's the only Configuration you need to do .

[CharlesBastian_]

Thanks, Anjani.  But those settings are already set.  As I mentioned, any other trigger I set works just fine.  I'm only having an issue with the network connectivity trigger.

[CharlesBastian_]

CoolRam No luck there either.  I did not have that set, since I'm running this alarm on the VM level (and it was supposed to be optional).  I went ahead and added it, but there was no change at all.  At this point I have the triggers for "VM No Network Access" & "VM disconnected" for Normal, Warning, and Alert.  So, I should be receiving a LOT of emails.  But, there are no emails at all.

I would think there would be a hidden command similar to the one for the esxi linkstate down, as well (esx.problem.net.vmnic.linkstate.down).  But, I've not been able to find one.

[CharlesBastian_ · Accepted solution]

Decided to just use Veeam ONE.  Their free version offers enough data and monitoring.  Seems that network monitoring is a shortfall of VMware.

[darpany]

I am facing same issue, can anyone suggest how to configure alarm for network outage/disconnect in VMs.

[warehaze]

Same issue here with vsphere 7, is there a fix?