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Set up Critical Alarms in Vcenter

Set up Critical Alarms in Vcenter

We have Network Operations users who work after business hours. I want to set up alarm notifications to be forwarded to them, but just for very critical alarms, so that they can call the On-call person at night.

I wonder which Alarms should be considered as very critical and deserves a wake up call.

we have Vcenter and 6 ESX hosts and 150 VMs. DRS and HA enabled.

Actually I do not want to set the alarms for VMs since there is Nagios used for that purpose.
I want to set up Critical alarms just for ESX servers, for instance if one of them crashes completely and other ESXs did not pick up the High Avalibility, or CPU and/or RAM was High for quite a long time and the VMotion did not happen

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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jskfan

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The On-Call person knows what to do with Alarms, but he is not allowed to set up Alarms...

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jskfan

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*** Host CPU and Host Memory would not that cause Vmotion of the VMs to another host(s) ?
***I believe Vmware Vcenter when installed has some Default alarms already set up..among them Memory and CPU usage.. I could be wrong though

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jskfan

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Hancock:

Do you screenshots on how they are configured ? especially the Triggers are a little bit no clear.

jskfan

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for some events Triggers are not intuitive