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thale13
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Tracking vmotions externally

So, I need to track where some of my vms move around to for Oracle compliance.  I was scraping syslog with Splunk or plain old syslog, but that broke with the 6.7u3 update so I'm trying to find a better way to do it.  I was thinking about creating a custom alarm that sends an e-mail or runs a script but I am not sure the best way to do that, so I have questions:

1) For the 'run a script' option, where does it run and with what arguments?

2) What target type (Datacenter I think) and condition would best catch all vmotions?

I realize this is probably an odd request, so if anyone has any insight into other ways to track it, I'm all ears.

Thanks.

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thale13
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Ok, so its a Virtual Machine alarm, not a Datacenter one.  I was looking at the wrong part when I read that.

I'm thinking it would be one of these:

- DRS VM Migrated

- VM in Emigrating

- VM is Hot Migrating

- VM migrating

- VM relocating

but I don't know which one would catch all migrations (manual and DRS).  I don't really want to create multiple alarms but I will if I have to.

T.

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