How to add an alarm for ESXi host's NTPd service in vCenter?

[Ke1th]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently working on setup a monitoring for ESXi host's NTPd service, is it possible to setup an alarm in vCenter to monitoring the NTPd service status for all ESXi host?

If the NTPd service is down then trigger an alert.

[bhards4]

Hi,

You can create alarm at vCenter level under alarm tab, under definition tab by creating a new Alarm.

Please use the VOID (_esx.problem.ntpd.clock.correction.error) you should be using to set the alarm.

However in order for the alarm to get triggered, there should be a VMkernel Observation (VOB) getting triggered and it will only get triggered if the NTP is unable to correct the time of the ESXi host and due to which the NTP deamon stops.

Set Alarm type = host

Trigger field enter esx.problem.clock.correction.error

-Sachin

[Ke1th]

Hi Sachin,

The trigger field is esx.problem.ntpd.clock.correction.error or esx.problem.clock.correction.error?