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BjornJohansson
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Create e-mail notification when event occurs on ESXi host?

Hello,

We are evaluating vcops 5.6.0 and I have a question.

We have some problems with our storage and it stops responding for a few seconds generating All Paths Down event on ESXi hosts.

I would like to be notified when any of the ESXi hosts logs this event. Preferable via e-mail.

Is that possible to setup on vcops? How do I do it?

Can't find any information about this topic.

Thanks

/B

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Hi,

Yes you can. The event will be seen by vC Ops and it collects this specific event from vCenter

It will be logges as a Fault, thus you need to have Health | Faults Selected and Critical Level. Then select at the bottom Host for the onject type.

That should do it.

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BjornJohansson
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Hi and thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately vCops does not see this as an fault, error, warning or anomaly. Not what I can see anyway. Possibly because the ESXi host just logs a warning. It can reconnect to storage a few seconds later. No disruptions usually occurs during All Path Down (APD), but we get latency spike.

Please see attached pic for more info. These are the events I would like to configure an e-mail alert on.

APD.png

Thanks

/Björn

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Might be cause vCenter have cleared the error already. vC Ops only collects every 5min.

Maybe in vCenter setup and alert to send you a mail.

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