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Table Of Contents
- Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Overview of Site Recovery Manager
- System Requirements
- Installing or Updating Site Recovery Manager
- Managing SRM
- Protected Site Configuration
- Recovery Site Configuration
- Failback
- Alerting and Monitoring
- Protected and Recovery Site Changes
- Preinstallation Checklist
- Failback Checklist
- Use the srm-config command to repair an SRM server connection
- Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data
- Glossary
- Index
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About SRM Alarm Triggers
Alarmtriggerstakeseveralforms:
SRMgenerateseventsthatcanbeassociatedwithalarmsontheVirtualCenter
Server,suchas:
ProblemsontheSRMservergenerateSNMPtraps,emails,andsoon.
AlarmsareassociatedwithSRMeventsfromtheSRMplug‐in.
FailureoftheSRMserverorVirtualCenterserverattheprotectedorrecoverysite
generateseventsthatcanbeassociatedwithVirtualCenteralarms,suchas:
Problemswiththelocalsite(forexample,resourceconstraints).
Problemswiththeremotesite(forexample,beingunabletopingtheSRMor
VirtualCenterhostataremotesite).Remote‐sitefailureisreflectedintheSRM
eventsanddoesnottriggerarecovery.Recoverymustbeinitiatedmanually.
Diskspaceislow.
CPUuseexceededthelimit.
Memoryislow.
Theremotesitefailstorespond.
TheVirtualCenterServerorSRMserverattheremotesitefails.
Therecoveryteststarted,endedsuccessfully,failed,oriscancelled.
Virtualmachinerecoverystarted,ended,succeeded,failed,orreportsawarning.
Thefollowingarethealarmnotificationmethods:
Sendanotificationemailmessage
Sendanotificationtrap
Runascript
Edit SRM Alarm Settings
YoucanmodifySRMalarms.Asimplechangeistoenableordisablethealarm.Ifan
alarmisdisabled,anXappearsonthealarmlistingicon.
ToeditanSRMalarm,thefollowingconditionsmustbeinplace:
VIClientmustbeconnectedtotheprotectionorrecoverysite.
TheminimumrequiredprivilegesareModifyAlarm(Alarmsprivileges).