The trigger names on the alarm rule wizard are duplicated.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server 8.0

Issue/Introduction

When selecting an alarm trigger, certain trigger names are listed twice in the drop-down menu when trying to select.

i.e.
"Degraded Storage Path Redundancy" is listed twice.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 8.0.2

Cause

This issue occurs because events with duplicate trigger names were added in the affected release as a part of code change.

Resolution

The alarm will be properly triggered for alarm which trigger is listed twice, regardless of the entry selected during creation.
Therefore, either trigger entry can be selected.

• Lost Network Connectivity
• Lost Network Redundancy
• Network Redundancy Degraded
• Invalid vmknic specified in /Migrate/Vmknic
• Lost Storage Connectivity
• Lost Storage Path Redundancy
• Degraded Storage Path Redundancy