Unable to find vSAN triggers to configre alarms on vCenter server for checksum errors
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Unable to find vSAN triggers to configre alarms on vCenter server for checksum errors

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Article ID: 415686

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Products

VMware vCenter Server VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Unable to find below triggers while configuring alarms from vCenter server.

esx.problem.vob.vsan.dom.errorfixed

esx.problem.vob.vsan.dom.unrecoverableerror

When trying to search, it does not list the trigger:

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0

VMware vCenter Server 8.0

Cause

Full format of message has been added to vCenter alarm rule instead of Vmkernel observation (VOB) events.

Resolution

In Alarm trigger, 

esx.problem.vob.vsan.dom.errorfixed has a rule name "vSAN detected and fixed a medium or checksum error" 

esx.problem.vob.vsan.dom.unrecoverableerror has a rule name "vSAN detected an unrecoverable medium or checksum error"

Rule names are not available with esx.problem for the vSAN checksum errors.

Configure the alarm using above triggers and target will be Host, it will be listed as below