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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
7Performance Protection
Performance Protection describes how vCenter Server Heartbeat monitors system and application attributes
to prevent an unexpected system or application failure.
Applications: Rules Tab
Rules are implemented by plug-ins (there are no user-dened rules). Congure rule actions to trigger the rule
that performs specic tasks. Rules have two trigger properties:
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Timed – They must evaluate as true continuously for the specied duration to trigger.
■
Latched – They trigger as soon as they evaluate to true.
Rules
The Applications: Rules page provides a list of rules with their current status and two ways to edit and check
rules.
Checking a Rule Condition
vCenter Server Heartbeat allows you to check the rule conditions of the current conguration against the
attributes of the system or application.
Procedure
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Right-click on the intended rule and select Check Now from the menu or click Check Now at the top of the
pane. The rule condition is displayed in the pane.
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