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Which Alarm should I use to define when both NICs are down on an ESXi host

Hi,  I had a recent situation where both of my NIC cards were unplugged, and we had a breakdown on our alerting process.  Does anyone know which built-in Alarm would help me discover this as soon as it happened?

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Take a look at the below 3 alarms

Network Connectivity Lost

Network Uplink Redundancy Degraded

Network Uplink Redundancy Lost

You can also create custom alarm if you required. Take a look at the document to creating custom alarms

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-12145

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aravinds3107
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Take a look at the below 3 alarms

Network Connectivity Lost

Network Uplink Redundancy Degraded

Network Uplink Redundancy Lost

You can also create custom alarm if you required. Take a look at the document to creating custom alarms

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-12145

If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points by marking the answer correct or helpful |Blog: http://aravindsivaraman.com/ | Twitter : ss_aravind
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Thanks!!

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