Vcenter sensor alerts - trigger email

do you have an alert defined ?

do you have an alerted enabled ?

and as you have discovered, this alert can only trigger if the Health has an issue, and sometimes failed disks do not do this.

and requires monitoring via SNMP

do you have an alert defined ? How do I check?

do you have an alerted enabled ? I can see the alerts so I assume yes?

Look at the Alarms defined in the Datacentre.

Checked out the alarms. I have all defaults alarms. None are set to email. I tested the CPU alarm and can confirm it email the alert. So, is it then possible to do this with the hardware alerts?

if the alerts do not trap the disk issue then no. you will need to look at a different method of hardware monitoring.

Well thats my question.. Will vmware trap physic disk errors. It knows about it as the hardware sensors are picking them up.

Closest I can see is the Host storage status alarm. Which is a bit generic but at least will trigger an email.

I wondered if its possible to manually create a alarm to trap finer details from the hardware sensors?