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Monitoring System Health
You
can use the system health dashboard in View Administrator to quickly see problems that might affect the
operation of View or access to desktops by end users.
The system health dashboard in the top left of the View Administrator display provides a number of links that
you can use to view reports about the operation of View Manager:
Remote Sessions
Provides a link to the Global Remote Sessions screen, which displays
information about the status of remote sessions.
Local Sessions
Provides a link to the Global Local Sessions View screen, which displays
information about the status of local desktop sessions.
Problem Desktops
Provides a link to the Global Desktop View screen, which displays information
about desktops that View Manager has flagged as having problems.
Events
Provides links to the Events screen filtered for error events and for warning
events.
System Health
Provides links to the Dashboard screen, which displays summaries of the status
of
View 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 View Manager
The event database stores information about events that occur in the View Connection Server host or group,
View Agents, and the View Administrator, and notifies you of the number of events on the dashboard. You
can examine the events in detail on the Events screen.
NOTE Events are listed in the View 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 VMware Horizon View
Integration document.
In addition to monitoring events in View Administrator, you can generate View 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 417 and "Configure Event Logging for Syslog Servers" in the VMware
Horizon View Installation document.
Prerequisites
Create and configure the event database as described in the VMware Horizon View Installation document.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select Monitoring > Events.
2 (Optional) In the Events window, you can select the time range of the events, apply filtering to the events,
and sort the listed events by one or more of the columns.
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