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9Alerts and Events
vCenter Server Heartbeat can notify Administrators of potential problems or when specic events occur by
sending a custom congured predened alerts and route event logs to a remote Administrator as required.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Conguring Alerts,” on page 77
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“Conguring Event Log Files,” on page 79
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“Reviewing Event Logs,” on page 81
Configuring Alerts
vCenter Server Heartbeat can send predened alerts to remote administrators via email when congured using
the Logs page.
Procedure
1 Navigate to the Logs page and click Congure Alerts.
You can congure one of three alert states: Red alerts are critical, Yellow alerts are not as serious, and Green
alerts are informational. These alerts are precongured with the recommended alerting levels.
2 To recongure each event to trigger Red, Yellow, Green or not alert, select the appropriate tab and select
the check box(s).
3 Click OK.
Configuring Alert Reporting
vCenter Server Heartbeat can alert the administrators or other personnel and route logs by email when an
Alert condition exists.
Procedure
1 Navigate to the Logs page and click Mail Settings to open the Mail Settings dialog.
2 Type the outgoing SMTP server of both the Primary server (for when active) and the Secondary server
(for when active) in the appropriate elds.
3 Type the Fully Qualied Domain Name (FQDN) of the mail server. Type an email address that is authorized
to send mail through the SMTP server.
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