How to disable an alarm of specific ESXI host from vCenter server.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server 8.0

Issue/Introduction

• When you want to disable an alarm of a specific ESXI host instead of all ESXI hosts in vCenter.
• This is useful when you have a planned activity on ESXI host.
• It helps in avoiding false alarms on vCenter and thus avoids other alarm actions associated with that alarm like creation of internal tickets.

Environment

vCenter 7.0 and later versions.

vCenter 8.0 and later versions.

Resolution

In order to disable a specific ESXI alarm, please follow below steps.

1. Log in to the vSphere Web Client.
2. Identify the ESXI host within vCenter`s inventory.
3. Select the ESXI host, click on configure and then select "Alarm Definitions".
4. Post selecting the "Alarm Definitions" Search for desired alarm and select is through radio box. For Example "Host Connection and power state" as below.

5. Click "Disable" in blue, this will be highlighted only if the alarm is selected.
6. This will disable the desired alarm of the specific ESXI host in vCenter.

 

Additional Information

How to disable an alarm for a specific VM in vCenter Server.