Administration

Problem RDS Hosts
Provides a link to the RDS Hosts tab on the Machines screen, which displays
information about RDS hosts that Horizon 7 has agged as having problems.
Events
Provides links to the Events screen ltered for error events and for warning
events.
System Health
Provides links to the Dashboard screen, which displays summaries of the
status of Horizon 7 components, vSphere components, domains, desktops,
and datastore usage.
The system health dashboard displays a numbered link against each item. This value indicates the number
of items that the linked report provides details about.
Monitor Events in Horizon 7
The event database stores information about events that occur in the Connection Server host or group,
Horizon Agent, and Horizon Administrator, and noties you of the number of events on the dashboard. You
can examine the events in detail on the Events screen.
N Events are listed in the Horizon Administrator interface for a limited time period. After this time, the
events are only available in the historical database tables. You can use Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle
database reporting tools to examine events in the database tables. For more information, see the View
Integration document.
In addition to monitoring events in Horizon Administrator, you can generate Horizon 7 events in Syslog
format so that the event data can be accessible to analytics software. See “Generating View Event Log
Messages in Syslog Format Using the -I Option,” on page 217 and "Congure Event Logging for Syslog
Servers" in the View Installation document.
Prerequisites
Create and congure the event database as described in the View Installation document.
Procedure
1 In Horizon Administrator, select Monitoring > Events.
2 (Optional) In the Events window, you can select the time range of the events, apply ltering to the
events, and sort the listed events by one or more of the columns.
Horizon 7 Event Messages
Horizon 7 reports events whenever the state of the system changes or it encounters a problem. You can use
the information in the event messages to take the appropriate action.
Table 11-4 shows the types of events that Horizon 7 reports.
Table 11‑4. Types of Event Reported by Horizon 7
Event Type Description
Audit Failure or
Audit Success
Reports the failure or success of a change that an administrator or user makes to the operation or
conguration of Horizon 7.
Error Reports a failed operation by Horizon 7.
Information Reports normal operations within Horizon 7.
Warning Reports minor problems with operations or conguration seings that might lead to more
serious problems over time.
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