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vSphere alarm audit trail

Posted on 2013-12-20

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Hi,

I have a VM in 5.1 that has triggered a high-cpu alarm occasionally over the last few days. I'd like to go back in time and see when this started. Is there any way to do that? Tried searching the log files with little luck.

Thanks!

--Ben

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by:Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert / EE MVE^2)

ID: 397333682013-12-21

Do you have vCenter Server, you can look in the tasks and events?

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by:Ben Conner

ID: 397335682013-12-21

Yes, I have that licensed. Entering the VM name, that appears to only go back 1 day.

--Ben

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by:Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert / EE MVE^2)

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert / EE MVE^2) earned 2000 total points

ID: 397335882013-12-21

in that case, you will need to use PowerCLI to extract the events, that have been stored

see here as an example

http://vninja.net/virtualization/exporting-vcenter-events-powercli/

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by:Ben Conner

ID: 397341132013-12-21

Nice! I hadn't used PoweCLI before and wasn't even sure before now if it was a client package or not. That did the trick.

Much appreciated!

--Ben

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by:Ben Conner

ID: 397341322013-12-21

Hi,

Looked through the log file entries for this VM from the events.csv file and didn't find any triggered alarm information. Is there another file I should be looking through?

Thanks!

--Ben

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