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Table Of Contents
- Administrator Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Configuring vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Server Protection
- Checking the Server Pair Status
- Monitoring the Status of Servers
- Configuring Heartbeat Settings
- Network Protection
- Application Protection
- Applications: Summary Tab
- Resetting the Application Health Status
- Viewing Application Status
- Setting the Application Timeout Exception
- Remove an Application
- Manually Stop and Start Applications
- Configuring Applications
- Application Maintenance Mode
- Reviewing the State of an Application
- Reviewing the Applications Log
- Filtering Application Log Entries
- Applications: Services Tab
- Applications: Tasks Tab
- Applications: Plug-ins Tab
- Applications: Summary Tab
- Status and Control
- About vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- Working with Groups
- Working with Pairs in vCenter Server Heartbeat Groups
- Reviewing the Status of vCenter Server Heartbeat Groups and Pairs
- Exiting vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- Shutting Down Windows Without Stopping vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Controlled Shutdown
- vSphere Web Client Plug-in
- Uninstalling vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Performance Protection
- Data Protection
- Alerts and Events
- Troubleshooting
- Two Active or Two Passive Servers
- Synchronization Failures
- Registry Status is Out-of-Sync
- Channel Drops
- Performance Issues
- Passive Server Does Not Meet Minimum Hardware Requirements
- Hardware or Driver Issues on VMware Channel NICs
- Firewall Connection
- Channel Fails to Connect After Configuring Firewall Ports
- Incorrect VMware Channel Configuration
- VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Packet Filter Is Enabled on the Channel NIC(s)
- Subnet or Routing Issues
- MaxDiskUsage Errors
- Application Slowdown
- Glossary
3 Type a path to the plug-in location or click Browse to navigate to the plug-in location. The path statement
is case-sensitive.
4 Click OK.
Editing a Plug-in
vCenter Server Heartbeat allows you to edit the conguration of user installed plug-ins.
Procedure
1 On the Applications: Plug-ins page, right-click on an existing plug-in from the Plugins list and select Edit
from the menu or select the plug-in and click Edit at the top of the pane to invoke the Edit Plugin dialog.
2 Review the conguration options before making modications as they are specic to each plug-in.
Note When conguring the SQL Server Plug-in, vCenter Server Heartbeat Console allows you to exclude
specic databases from rule checks to prevent false alarm triggering when databases are intentionally
taken oine.
3 Click OK.
Uninstalling a Plug-in
You can uninstall a plug-in when you upgrade or remove the application the plug-in protects, or when directed
by VMware Support.
Procedure
1 On the Applications: Plug-ins page, right-click an existing plug-in and select Uninstall or select the plug-in
and click Uninstall at the top of the pane.
A conrmation dialog appears.
2 Click OK.
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