We know there are a million up/down notification applications out there, but we are looking to make use of VMware alarms to notify on VM reboots. Any reboots. Windows updates, bluescreens, help desk staff, etc..
I understand the standard reboot alarms built-in to VMware are only for reboots initiated through the client, so I am wondering if anyone has created a good custom alarm?
We currently use a custom alarm that looks for a missing heartbeat AND network usage for a VM under 1 kbps for 30 seconds. This works OK, but it is sketchy.
A number of things like backup stuns give us false alarms.
I noticed this post, which seems to be a similar question, but there are no replies;
We are running 5.5 U2.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks.
