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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
6 Send email notifications
a To send email notifications when alarms are triggered, enable Send email notifications.
b In the Email to, enter recipient addresses. Use commas to separate multiple addresses.
7 To send traps when alarms are triggered on a vCenter Server instance, enable Send SNMP traps.
8 Run scripts
a To run scripts when alarms are triggered, enable Run script.
b In Run this script column, type script or command information:
Option Action
Send a notification email Type email addresses, separated by a comma.
Migrate VM Complete the virtual machine migration wizard.
Run a command Take one of the following actions and press Enter:
n
If the command is a .exe file, enter the full path name of the command
and include any parameters. For example, to run the cmd.exe command
in the C:\tools directory, with the alarmName and targetName
parameters, type: c:\tools\cmd.exe alarmName targetName
n
If the command is a .bat file, enter the full path name of the command as
an argument to the c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe command. Include
any parameters. For example, to run the cmd.bat command in the
C:\tools directory, with the alarmName and targetName parameters,
type:
c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\tools\cmd.bat alarmName
targetName
For .bat files, the command and its parameters must be formatted into
one string.
If your script does not make use of the alarm environment variables, include any necessary
parameters in the configuration field. Enclose parameters in curly brackets. For example:
c:\tools\cmd.exe {alarmName} {targetName}
c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\tools\cmd.bat {alarmName} {targetName}
The script can run on any platform. You must provide the path to the script and argument keys.
For example:
/var/myscripts/myAlarmActionScript {alarmName} {targetName}
9 (Optional) Configure alarm transitions and frequency.
What to do next
Click Next to review the alarm details.
Review and Enable Alarm
You can review and enable the alarm in the vSphere Client
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