ESXi Uplink down alert

[tomsmig]

Hi, I am looking for way to force "Uplink lost" alert on a host if any of the uplinks fails.

For example there is a server with 4 physical ports assigned as uplinks to particular VDS and I'd like to be informed that any od those uplinks connection went down.

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Regards,

Tom

[daphnissov]

You should get that automatically with a "network redundancy lost" alert inside vCenter. This alarm is active by default.

[tomsmig]

This works if I'd have only one uplink left.

If I have four uplinks assigned to switch and four of them are assigned as active/passive to portgroup, then alert is not triggered if one or two uplinks failed.

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regards,

Tom

[berndweyand · Accepted solution]

try it with vob-alarms - that worked for me:

https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2014/04/handy-vsan-vobs-for-creating-vcenter-alarms.html

[IRIX201110141]

IIRC there is also a "reduced network redundancy" alarm which is what your looking for. It means when Link 1 out of 4 for example is still missing.

Regards,
Joerg

[IRIX201110141]

I mean the "Network uplink redundancy degraded" alarm.   I also got E-Mail from the the Host it self (iDRAC) as well as from E-Mail enabled LogInsight(Syslog) event related to the "state" changes on the phys. switch port.

Regard,
Joerg

[tomsmig]

I tried:

vob.net.vmnic.linkstate.down

vob.net.vmnic.linkstate.up

esx.problem.net.dvport.redundancy.degraded

esx.clear.net.dvport.redundancy.restored

esx.problem.net.dvport.redundancy.degraded

esx.clear.net.dvport.redundancy.restored

And the last pair did the trick.

Alert is immediately triggered and if link is reconnected, alert is cleared.

Thanks for help.

[tomsmig]

iDRAC does send SNMP trap, but i do not have LogInsight installed.

Managed to setup alert with VOBs

Thank for help.