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Table Of Contents
- vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Contents
- About vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Monitoring Inventory Objects with Performance Charts
- Performance Chart Types
- Data Counters
- Metric Groups in vSphere
- Data Collection Intervals
- Data Collection Levels
- View Performance Charts
- Performance Charts Options Available Under the View Menu
- Overview Performance Charts
- Clusters
- Data centers
- Datastores and Datastore Clusters
- Disk Space (Data Counters)
- Disk Space (File Types)
- Disk Space (Datastores)
- Disk Space (Virtual Machines)
- Space Allocated by Datastore in GB
- Space Capacity by Datastore in GB
- Storage I/O Control Normalized Latency
- Storage I/O Control Aggregate IOPs
- Storage I/O Control Activity
- Average Device Latency per Host
- Maximum Queue Depth per Host
- Read IOPs per Host
- Write IOPs Per Host
- Average Read Latency per Virtual Machine Disk
- Average Write Latency per Virtual Machine Disk
- Read IOPs per Virtual Machine Disk
- Write IOPs Per Virtual Machine Disk
- Virtual Machine Observed Latency per Datastore
- Hosts
- Resource Pools
- vApps
- Virtual Machines
- CPU (%)
- CPU Usage (MHz)
- Disk (Average)
- Disk (Rate)
- Disk (Number)
- Virtual Disk Requests (Number)
- Virtual Disk Rate (KBps)
- Memory (Usage)
- Memory (Balloon)
- Memory (Swap Rate)
- Memory (Data Counters)
- Network (Usage)
- Network (Rate)
- Network (Packets)
- Disk Space (Data Counters)
- Disk Space (Datastores)
- Disk Space (File Types)
- Fault Tolerance Performance Counters
- Working with Advanced and Custom Charts
- Troubleshoot and Enhance Performance
- Monitoring Guest Operating System Performance
- Monitoring Host Health Status
- Monitoring vSphere Health
- Monitoring Events, Alarms, and Automated Actions
- View Events
- View System Logs
- Export Events Data
- Streaming Events to a Remote Syslog Server
- Retention of Events in the vCenter Server Database
- View Triggered Alarms and Alarm Definitions
- Live Refresh of Recent Tasks and Alarms
- Set an Alarm in the vSphere Web Client
- Set an Alarm in the vSphere Client
- Acknowledge Triggered Alarms
- Reset Triggered Event Alarms
- Preconfigured vSphere Alarms
- Monitoring Solutions with the vCenter Solutions Manager
- Monitoring the Health of Services and Nodes
- Performance Monitoring Utilities: resxtop and esxtop
- Using the vimtop Plug-In to Monitor the Resource Use of Services
- Monitoring Networked Devices with SNMP and vSphere
- Using SNMP Traps with vCenter Server
- Configure SNMP for ESXi
- SNMP Diagnostics
- Monitor Guest Operating Systems with SNMP
- VMware MIB Files
- SNMPv2 Diagnostic Counters
- System Log Files
- View System Log Entries
- View System Logs on an ESXi Host
- System Logs
- Export System Log Files
- ESXi Log Files
- Upload Logs Package to a VMware Service Request
- Configure Syslog on ESXi Hosts
- Configuring Logging Levels for the Guest Operating System
- Collecting Log Files
- Viewing Log Files with the Log Browser
- Enable the Log Browser Plug-In on the vCenter Server Appliance
- Enable the Log Browser Plug-In on a vCenter Server Instance That Runs on Windows
- Retrieve Logs
- Search Log Files
- Filter Log Files
- Create Advanced Log Filters
- Adjust Log Times
- Export Logs from the Log Browser
- Compare Log Files
- Manage Logs Using the Log Browser
- Browse Log Files from Different Objects
Table 5‑4. Alarm Environment Variables (Continued)
Variable Name Variable Description Supported Alarm Type
VMWARE_ALARM_OLDSTATUS The old status of the alarm. Condition, State, Event
VMWARE_ALARM_NEWSTATUS The new status of the alarm. Condition, State, Event
VMWARE_ALARM_TRIGGERINGSUMMARY A multiline summary of the alarm. Condition, State, Event
VMWARE_ALARM_DECLARINGSUMMARY A single-line declaration of the alarm
expression.
Condition, State, Event
VMWARE_ALARM_ALARMVALUE The value that triggered the alarm. Condition, State
VMWARE_ALARM_EVENTDESCRIPTION A description of the alarm status
change event.
Condition, State
VMWARE_ALARM_EVENTDESCRIPTION A description of the event that
triggered the alarm.
Event
VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_USERNAME The user name associated with the
event.
Event
VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_DATACENTER The name of the data center in which
the event occurred.
Event
VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_COMPUTERESOURCE The name of the cluster or resource
pool in which the event occurred.
Event
VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_HOST The name of the host on which the
event occurred.
Event
VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_VM The name of the virtual machine on
which the event occurred.
Event
VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_NETWORK The name of the network on which
the event occurred.
Event
VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_DATASTORE The name of the datastore on which
the event occurred.
Event
VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_DVS The name of the vSphere Distributed
Switch on which the event occurred.
Event
Alarm Command-Line Parameters
VMware provides command-line parameters that function as a substitute for the default alarm
environment variables. You can use these parameters when running a script as an alarm action for a
condition, state, or event alarm.
The command-line parameters enable you to pass alarm information without having to change an alarm
script. For example, you can use these parameters when you have an external program for which you do
not have the source. You can pass in the necessary data by using the substitution parameters, which take
precedence over the environment variables. You pass the parameters through the Configuration dialog
box in the alarm definition wizard or on a command line.
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