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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
Reviewing Event Logs
The Event Log pane of the Logs page lists events logged chronologically by default. The Event Log shows the
time an event happened, the type, the source, its importance, and its detail. The display order for events can
be sorted either descending or ascending by clicking on the column heading. Since the detail in the data grid
is truncated, it may be necessary to review the log in more detail.
Reviewing Event Log Details
Event Properties displays the full detail and trace of an event that caused an error and the source of the error
to aid in troubleshooting.
Procedure
1 Select an event in the Event Log and double-click the entry in the data grid.
The Event Properties dialog is displayed.
2 Use the Up and Down arrows in this window to review other logs.
This feature is useful where many events have occurred simultaneously and helps to identify the source
of the problem.
3 Click Close to close the Event Properties dialog.
Table 9- 2. Log Events
DescriptionIcon
Errors within the underlying operation of vCenter Server Heartbeat and can be considered critical to
the operation of the system.
Warnings generated for discrepancies within the vCenter Server Heartbeat operational environment
that are not deemed critical to the operation of the system.
System logs are generated following normal vCenter Server Heartbeat operations. You can use these
logs to verify the success of processes such as le synchronization.
Information on operations within the graphical user interface rather than operations on vCenter Server
Heartbeat service, such as Test Alert Reporting.
Filtering Event Logs
The list of events that vCenter Server Heartbeat displays may be ltered to hide less important events and/or
limit the events displayed to a specic date and time range.
Filtering log events by importance
Procedure
1 Click Filters on the Logs page to invoke the Event Log Filters dialog.
2 Select Events of at Least.
3 Select the Show events of at least check box in the Importance group.
4 Select the importance level from the drop-down list and click OK.
Only logs equal to or above the selected severity are displayed.
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