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Site Recovery Manager Administration Guide
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About SRM Alarm Triggers
Alarmtriggerstakeseveralforms:
SRMgenerateseventsthatcanbeassociatedwithalarmsontheVirtualCenter
Server,suchas:
ProblemsontheSRMservergenerateSNMPtraps,emails,andsoon.
AlarmsareassociatedwithSRMeventsfromtheSRMplugin.
FailureoftheSRMserverorVirtualCenterserverattheprotectedorrecoverysite
generateseventsthatcanbeassociatedwithVirtualCenteralarms,suchas:
Problemswiththelocalsite(forexample,resourceconstraints).
Problemswiththeremotesite(forexample,beingunabletopingtheSRMor
VirtualCenterhostataremotesite).RemotesitefailureisreflectedintheSRM
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).