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Table 21-10. Host Event Triggers (Continued)
Event Category Available Events
IP address Host IP changed, IP inconsistent, IP to short name not completed, Cannot get short host
name, Short name to IP not completed, Duplicate IP detected.
vCenter Agent Cannot complete vCenter Agent, Cannot uninstall vCenter Agent.
Datastore Event Triggers
VMware provides preconfigured alarms that trigger when events occur on datastores.
Table 21-11 lists events you can use to trigger alarms on datastores.
Table 21-11. Datastore Event Triggers
Event Category Available Events
Datastore modification Datastore capacity increased.
Local datastore created, Datastore deleted, Datastore discovered, Datastore
removed from host.
File system operations File or directory copied to datastore, File or directory deleted from datastore, File
or directory moved to datastore.
NAS NAS datastore created.
VMFS VMFS datastore created, VMFS datastore expanded, VMFS datastore extended.
Datacenter Event Triggers
VMware provides preconfigured alarms that trigger when events occur on datacenters.
Table 21-12 lists events you can use to set alarms on datacenters.
Table 21-12. Datacenter Event Triggers
Event Category Available Events
Alarms Alarm created, reconfigured, removed. Alarm email sent, email send failed. Alarm
script completed, script not completed. Alarm SNMP trap sent, SNMP trap not
completed. Alarm status changed.
Authentication, Permissions, and
Roles
Already authenticated. Permission added, removed, updated. Profile created,
removed. Role added, created, removed.
Custom Fields Custom field definition added, removed, renamed. Custom field value changed.
cannot complete customization network setup.
Customization Customization Linux identity failed, network setup failed.
Datacenter Datacenter created, renamed.
Datastore Datastore renamed, datastore renamed on host.
DRS DRS invocation not completed, DRS recovered from failure.
DVS vNetwork Distributed Switch merged, renamed, configuration on some hosts
differed from that of the vCenter Server.
HA and DRS HA agent found, DRS invocation not completed, DRS recovered from failure.
Hosts Host add failed, inventory full, short name inconsistent, cannot add host.
Licensing License added, assigned, expired, insufficient, removed, unassigned. License server
available, unavailable. Unlicensed virtual machines, all virtual machines licensed.
Scheduled Tasks Scheduled task created, completed, cannot complete, email sent, email not sent,
reconfigured, removed, started.
Templates Upgrading template, template upgraded, cannot upgrade template.
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