6.0.1
Table Of Contents
- vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Contents
- About vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Updated Information
- 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
- Datacenters
- Datastores
- Disk Space (Data Counters)
- Disk Space (File Types)
- Disk Space (Virtual Machines)
- 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 Events, Alarms, and Automated Actions
- View Events
- View System Logs
- Export Events Data
- View Triggered Alarms and Alarm Definitions
- Live Refresh of Recent Tasks and Alarms
- Set an Alarm
- 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 Usage 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
- Index
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To view alarms triggered on a selected inventory object, click the Monitor tab, click Issues, and click
Triggered Alarms.
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To view a list of available alarm definitions for a selected inventory object, click the Manage tab, and
click Alarm Definitions.
Live Refresh of Recent Tasks and Alarms
You can configure the vSphere Web Client to live refresh the recent tasks and the alarms that result from
operations that other users perform in your environment.
By design the vSphere Web Client displays tasks initiated by other users and the resulting alarms from these
tasks only when you manually refresh the vSphere Web Client. If you want to see the tasks from other users,
or monitor alarms resulting from other users actions, perform the following procedure.
Procedure
1 On the computer where the vSphere Web Client is installed, locate the webclient.properties file.
The location of this file depends on the operating system on which the vSphere Web Client is installed.
Operating System File path
Windows
C:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\cfg\vsphere-
client\webclient.properties
vCenter Server Appliance
/etc/vmware/vsphere-client/webclient.properties
2 Open the webclient.properties file, add the following configuration line, and save it.
live.updates.enabled=true
Live refresh of recent tasks and alarms is enabled for the vSphere Web Client.
3 Log out from the vSphere Web Client.
4 Use https://hostname:9443/vsphere-client/ to log in to the vSphere Web Client.
hostname stands for the name or the IP address of the host where vCenter Server system runs.
If you log in to the vSphere Web Client by using the https://hostname/vsphere-client/ you will see no
recent tasks or alarms under the respective Recent Tasks or Alarms portlets in the vSphere Web Client.
In an environment with multiple vCenter Server systems that are connected to the same vCenter Server
Single-Sign On domain, the vSphere Web Client that you configured for live refresh displays recent tasks
and alarms for all the vCenter Server instances in the domain. However, if you log in to a different
vSphere Web Client, you will not see live refresh for recent tasks or alarms for any of the vCenter Server
systems in the vCenter Server Single-Sign On domain.
In this example, you have two vCenter Server instances (A and B) connected to the same vCenter Server
Single-Sign On domain. With each of the vCenter Server instances you installed a vSphere Web Client
instance.
You log in to vSphere Web Client A by using https://hostnameA/vsphere-client/.
You log in to vSphere Web Client B by using https://hostnameB/vsphere-client/.
You enable live refresh of recent tasks and alarms on vSphere Web Client A, and log out from it.
You can observe the following results:
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You log in to vSphere Web Client A from https://hostnameA/vsphere-client/. You do not see any
recent tasks or alarms in the respective Recent Tasks or Alarms portlets.
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