Email on event

[jp3457]

We have a couple older HPe Proliants that occasionally will lose connectivity to /bootbank.  In our case the hosts are booting off of an onboard SD card and this is a common issue.  Until new hosts can be procured, I'd like to have vCenter email me when I get the event.  I can't figure out how to do a custom alarm definition to email me when this happens.

this is the error:

EventTypeId : com.vmware.vc.StatelessAlarmTriggeredEvent
Severity :
Message :
Arguments : {alarm, alarmEntity, triggeredEntity, triggerEventKey...}
ObjectId : host-36269
ObjectType : HostSystem
ObjectName : hostname10.none.local
Fault :
Key : 9485014
ChainId : 9485014
CreatedTime : 4/20/2021 6:06:21 AM
UserName :
Datacenter : VMware.Vim.DatacenterEventArgument
ComputeResource : VMware.Vim.ComputeResourceEventArgument
Host : VMware.Vim.HostEventArgument
Vm :
Ds :
Net :
Dvs :
FullFormattedMessage : Alarm 'Host error' on hostname10.none.local triggered by event 9485013 'Issue detected on
hostname10.none.local in COB_Datacenter: Bootbank cannot be found at path '/bootbank'
(2021-04-20T10:05:47.765Z cpu47:5652250)'
ChangeTag :

Message : Bootbank cannot be found at path '/bootbank'
(2021-04-20T10:05:47.765Z cpu47:5652250)
Key : 9485013
ChainId : 9485013
CreatedTime : 4/20/2021 6:05:47 AM
UserName :
Datacenter : VMware.Vim.DatacenterEventArgument
ComputeResource : VMware.Vim.ComputeResourceEventArgument
Host : VMware.Vim.HostEventArgument
Vm :
Ds :
Net :
Dvs :
FullFormattedMessage : Issue detected on hostname10.none.local in COB_Datacenter: Bootbank cannot be found at path
'/bootbank'
(2021-04-20T10:05:47.765Z cpu47:5652250)

[a_p_]

I didn't try this myself, but https://www.virten.net/2015/11/how-to-create-custom-vcenter-alarms/ may help for how to create an alarm definition for "com.vmware.vc.StatelessAlarmTriggeredEvent".

André

[jp3457]

I tried that site, but I vCenter 7 and can't find the spot to enter an Event trigger.

[a_p_]

I took a closer look at this in my lab , and I think I found how to create an alarm for this.

Select "Stateless Alarm Triggered" (under "Others"), and add an argument "Message" "starts with" "Bootbank cannot be found at path".

André

[jp3457]

First...thank you for looking into this.

Second...I don't happen to have a selection for, "Stateless Alarm Triggered" in my list of triggers.  I have 83 different triggers under Options and not one of them is for "Stateless Alarm".

Am I missing something??

[a_p_]

Strange, it also shows 83 for me. Maybe a different vCenter build!?

Anyway, since I didn't know what exactly I had to look for, I entered/pasted com.vmware.vc.StatelessAlarmTriggeredEvent into the search field and hit the Enter key, then I saved the alarm. After opening the settings again, it showed the "Stateless Alarm Triggered".

André