"Backup job failed" event is treated as severity info in SNMP traps.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

The alarm "Backup job status" detects Backup job failed event.
The SNMP trap for the "Backup job failed" event contains text with "severity = info".


Example SNMP trap

vmwVpxdTargetObjType = INTEGER: 4
vmwVpxdOldStatus = STRING: "Normal"
vmwVpxdNewStatus = STRING: "Critical"
vmwVpxdObjValue = STRING: "alarm.BackupStatusVc - Event: Backup job failed (#######)
Summary: Backup job failed
Date: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS
User name: VSPHERE.LOCAL\\machine-########-####-####-####-############
Arguments:
    eventTypeId = com.vmware.applmgmt.backup.job.failed.event
    severity = info
    _sourcehost_ = host.example.com
vmwVpxdTargetObj = Datacenters

Environment

vCenter Server 8.x

Resolution

This is expected behavior.

Backup job failure events are defined as severity info.