Working with Alarms in VC2.5 and ESX 3.5

[agriesser]

Hi folks!

I'm trying to set up some alarms to monitor my ESX servers and virtual machines. So far I've already set up some alarms that monitor the ESX server's state, CPU and memory percentage as well as the state of virtual machines, VMware Tools heartbeat and VM CPU performance.

So far so good, the alarms are working, SNMP trap notifications are sent correctly, BUT: Why do the visual state indicators for all my VMs and ESX hosts never change to green? All my ESX servers are perfectly fine at the moment as well as the VMs (except the powered off ones which are flagged with a red exclamation mark of course) but the indicators are still showing the yellow exclamation mark.

Is this behaviour intentional?

Here's an example of an already configured alarm in my setup:

[LarsLiljeroth]

Hi

This is not intentional... there a alot of discussions about this.. i think it is a bug..

Normally this will fix it --- log into the console and run service mgmt-vmware restart

See these->

http://communities.vmware.com/message/859812#859812

http://communities.vmware.com/message/754104#754104

http://communities.vmware.com/message/744913

[agriesser]

Well, unfortunately, editing the alarms, disabling them and re-enabling them as well as issuing `service mgmt-vmware restart` didn't help.

I'm wondering why the e-mail notifications contain text like "switched state from yellow to green" etc., but the objects in VC are still marked as yellow...

[LarsLiljeroth]

Have you made a SR on the issue ?

[agriesser]

Not by now. I wanted to make sure that this is not a user-error before opening a SR.

[LarsLiljeroth]

I see..

So is the alarming working as it should, between all levels green <-> Yellow, Yellow <-> Red ...?

It is only the visual alarms that aren't working ??