Smarts ESM: How do you configure these Vcenter host alerts so ESM can read them; VirtualMachine VMCPUUsageAlarm, VirtualMachine VMMemoryUsageAlarm

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

How do you configure the following Vcenter host alerts so ESM can read them? By following these instructions these events in Vcenter will be imported into Smarts ESM. 1: VirtualMachine VMCPUUsageAlarm 2: VirtualMachine VMMemoryUsageAlarm

 



1: To have this Vcenter alert - VirtualMachine VMCPUUsageAlarm-  show in Smarts ESM, follow these steps:

1. Login to vCenter.
2. Click on the vCenter Name on the LHS. Select Alarms > Definitions on the RHS.
3. Select the  Virtual machine CPU usage  event and right click on the event definition and select edit settings.
4. Define the thresholds as per your requirement.
5. Whenever the Virtual Machine crosses the Alert threshold settings,  Virtual machine CPU usage  event will be generated in the vCenter.
6. Smarts will pick up this event from the vCenter and will be shown  VirtualMachine VMCPUUsageAlarm  event in ESM Server.

2: To have this alert in Vcenter - VirtualMachine VMMemoryUsageAlarm -  show in Smarts ESM, follow these steps:
 

1. Login to vCenter.
2. Click on the vCenter Name on the LHS. Select Alarms > Definitions on the RHS.
3. Select the  Virtual machinememory usage  event and right click on the event definition and select edit settings.
4. Define the thresholds as per your requirement.
5. So whenever the Virtual Machine crosses the Alert threshold settings,  Virtual machinememory usage  event will be generated in the vCenter.
6. Smarts will pick up this event from the vCenter and will be shown  VirtualMachine VMMemoryUsageAlarm  event in ESM Server.

Similar procedure needs to be followed for Host CPU usage and Host Memory usage in vCenter, which will trigger
 HostCPUUsage  Event and  HostMemoryUsage  Event on Hypervisor in ESM Server.

Note: For all other alerts you see in your Smarts AM PM domains, follow this article. Smarts ESM: No events from ESM for high CPU and Memory from VM hosts; Instrumentation data is missing for VM Hosts