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Chapter 8 Alerting and Monitoring
To edit an alarm
1UsingaVIClient,logintotheprotectedsiteVirtualCenterServer.
2ClickSiteRecoveryontheVIClienttoolbar.
3ClicktheAlarmstab.
4RightclicktheeventandselectEditSettings.
5ClickActiontochoosetheactiontotakewhentheeventistriggeredandspecify
theassociatedinformation.
6To
completethealarm,clickOK.
7VirtualCenterverifiestheconfigurationofthealarmandaddsthealarmtothelist
ofalarmsforSRM.
Option Description
Sendanotification
email
ProvidetheemailaddressofthenotificationrecipientintheValuefield.
SMTPsendsanotificationemail.SMTPmustbereadywhentheemailis
sent.
TheVirtualCenterServergeneratestheemailmessagesubjectandbody
text.Onlythe“to”list(Value)isrequiredfromuserinput.
Specifythe
emailaddresstowhichthemessageshouldbesent.
ForinformationaboutpreparingforemailmessageSMTPalarm
notificationforVirtualCenterServer,seetheVMwareInfrastructureBasic
SystemAdministration.
Sendanotification
trap
TheVirtualCenterServerisadefaultSNMPnotificationreceiver.An
SNMPtrapviewerisrequiredto
viewasenttrap.TheVirtualCenter
ServerhostmustbeconfiguredtoreceiveSNMPtraps.
ForinformationaboutpreparingforemailmessageSNMPalarmSMTP
alarmnotificationforVirtualCenterServer,seeVMwareInfrastructure
BasicSystemAdministration.
Runascript Ifthescriptisan.exefile,providethepathtothe
script.Ifthescriptis
a.batfile,providethescriptpathasanargumenttothe
c:\windows\system32\cmd.execommand.Forexample,toruna
scriptlocatedinc:\alarmscript.bat,providethescriptpathas
c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\alarmscript.cmd.