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
Prerequisites
Required Privilege: Alarms.Create alarm or Alarms.Modify alarm
Procedure
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Create or edit alarms in the Manage tab.
a Select an inventory object and click the Manage tab.
b Click Alarm Definitions.
c Right-click the list of alarms and select one of the options to add or edit an alarm.
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Add an alarm to an object in the object navigator.
a Right-click an inventory object and select Alarms > New Alarm Definition.
Specify Alarm Name, Description, and Type
General settings of an alarm definition include alarm name, description, and type. You can also enable and
disable the alarm from the general settings page. When you select the alarm type, you also select the type of
inventory object and the type of activity (events, or conditions and states) that you want to monitor. The
options on the Triggers page change depending on the type of activity that you choose to monitor.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have navigated to the General page of the alarm definition wizard. See “View and Edit
Alarm Settings,” on page 109.
Required Privilege: Alarms.Create alarm or Alarms.Modify alarm
Procedure
1 Type a name and description.
2 Select the type of inventory object that this alarm will monitor.
3 Select the type of activity that this alarm will monitor.
The options on the Triggers page change depending on the type of activity you select.
4 Click Next.
What to do next
Specify alarm triggers.
Specify How an Event-Based Alarm is Triggered
You can specify the events, states, or conditions that trigger the alarm on the Triggers page of the alarm
definition wizard. The alarm type options that you selected determine the options available on the Triggers
page. An alarm definition must contain at least one trigger before you can save it.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have navigated to the Triggers page of the alarm definition wizard. See “View and Edit
Alarm Settings,” on page 109.
Required Privilege: Alarms.Create alarm or Alarms.Modify alarm
Procedure
1 Select the trigger that you want to change, or click the Add icon to add a new trigger.
2 Click in the Event column, and select an option from the drop-down menu.
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