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Cannot reset VMware alarms to green
Running vSphere 4.1 with several file stores.
One of these had a "red" alarm because it was almost filling up.
Meanwhile, I have migrated *all* VMs away from that store.
Ovreview says: 199.75 GB capacity, 562MB made available, 199.2 GB free.
"Search file store" only lists two files of 2.5 KB each. (Why the dicrepancy 5 KB vs 562MB?)
All in all, there is no more reason for an alarm.
Deescaltion from red to yellow or green has worked automatically before.
I could "confirm" the alarm, but there is no option to "reset to green" - not even greyed out.
(Curiously, some other alarms that are already green, still have "reset to green" available in the menu)
I might add that we updated everything from 4.0 to 4.1 a few weeks ago.
One of these had a "red" alarm because it was almost filling up.
Meanwhile, I have migrated *all* VMs away from that store.
Ovreview says: 199.75 GB capacity, 562MB made available, 199.2 GB free.
"Search file store" only lists two files of 2.5 KB each. (Why the dicrepancy 5 KB vs 562MB?)
All in all, there is no more reason for an alarm.
Deescaltion from red to yellow or green has worked automatically before.
I could "confirm" the alarm, but there is no option to "reset to green" - not even greyed out.
(Curiously, some other alarms that are already green, still have "reset to green" available in the menu)
I might add that we updated everything from 4.0 to 4.1 a few weeks ago.
Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
Start and Stop the VMware vCenter Service (if possible).
Is this on a vCenter server? If so go to the highest lever you can in the tree above the datacenter it will be the name of your vcenter server I think and look there in Alarms.
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Stopped and started VMware VirtualCenter Service (and Management Webservices) - no change
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@RickEpnet: That's exactly where I looked at the alarms - no option to reset to green available. (Context menu has: "Confirm alarm" and "Copy to clipboard")
I do not really understand this?
Ovreview says: 199.75 GB capacity, 562MB made available, 199.2 GB free.
Normally it is just Capacity and Free what is the "made available"?
Ovreview says: 199.75 GB capacity, 562MB made available, 199.2 GB free.
Normally it is just Capacity and Free what is the "made available"?
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@RickEpnet: Maybe "made available" is a bad retranslation of mine, In German it says "Bereitgestellt" and its the second balue in the "Capacity"box (top right) in the "Overview" tab of the storage in question. Apparently its the difference of capacity and free - I just wondered why this was soo much bigger than the total of files findable. Anyway that's probably a problem of statistics and thus secondary to the alarm stuff.
@damm66: Thanks, disabling and reenablingthe alarm in "larm definitions" helped. Will assign points in a few minutes, but wan to keep this thread open so long just in case anyone has an idea why this did not happen automatically (as it should, shouldn't it?)
@damm66: Thanks, disabling and reenablingthe alarm in "larm definitions" helped. Will assign points in a few minutes, but wan to keep this thread open so long just in case anyone has an idea why this did not happen automatically (as it should, shouldn't it?)
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