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The Anomalies score ranges between 0 (good) and 100 (bad). The badge changes its color based on the badge
score thresholds that are set by the vCenter Operations Manager administrator.
Table 2-4. Object Anomalies States
Badge Icon Description User Action
The Anomalies score is normal. No attention required.
The Anomalies score exceeds the
normal range.
Check the Details tab to identify
what causes the abnormal
number of anomalies, and take
appropriate action.
The Anomalies score is very
high.
Check the Details tab to identify
the cause of the abnormal
behaviour, and take appropriate
action as soon as possible.
Most of the metrics are beyond
their thresholds. This object
might not be working properly
or might stop working soon.
Check the Details tab, and act
immediately to avoid or correct
problems.
No data is available.
The object is offline.
A vCenter Operations Manager administrator can change the badge score thresholds. For example, a green
Anomalies badge can indicate a score below 60 instead of 50, as set be default.
Using the Faults Badge Under the Health Badge
The Faults badge measures the degree of problems that the object might experience based on events retrieved
from the vCenter Server.
The events that might generate faults include the loss of redundancy in NICs or HBAs, memory checksum
errors, high availability failover, or Common Information Model (CIM) events, which require your immediate
attention.
NOTE vCenter Operations Manager calculates the Faults score for the World object by using the Faults scores
of the vCenter Server systems, the ESX hosts and clusters, and the datastores that belong to the World inventory.
Therefore, if you have one vCenter Server with a Faults score of 100 and another vCenter Server with a Faults
score of 0, this might not necessarily result in a Faults score of 50 for the World object. The final Faults score
for the World object also depends on the number of datastores, ESX hosts and clusters in the environment, and
the Fault scores of these objects.
Fault scores of virtual machines are not taken into account when calculating the Faults score for the World
object.
While the Faults score ranges between 0 to 100, the badge changes color based on the badge score thresholds
that are set by the vCenter Operations Manager administrator. For example, a green Faults badge can indicate
a score below 40 instead of a score below 25 (the system default).
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