FAQs: Can vCenter alarms/alerts for the vSAN cluster be replicated within Aria Operations

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Want to replicate vCenter alarms/alerts for the vSAN cluster within Aria Operations.

Environment

Aria Operations 8.18.x

Resolution

Broadcom does not provide recommendation to replicate configured custom alerts for vSAN cluster in Aria Operations. As native vSAN alert definitions or ingest vCenter alarms goes directly through the vCenter adapter for default alerts. So the native vSAN alert definitions is the recommended best practice, as Aria Operations is engineered to mirror vSAN Health checks out-of-the-box.

As default alert can be replicated using the below steps but this cannot be applicable for custom alerts:

1. Method 1: Activate Native vSAN Alert Definitions (Recommended): Aria Operations natively provides alerts that correspond directly to vCenter vSAN Health checks.
   1. Log in to the Aria Operations UI and navigate to Operations > Configuration > Policies.
      (Older version: Configure > Policies and then select the active monitoring policy applied to vSAN cluster and click Edit).
   2. Select the active monitoring policy applied to your "Umbrella" vSAN cluster under Policy Definition and click Edit.
   3. Navigate to the Alerts and Symptoms tab.
   4. Filter the Object Type column for vSAN Cluster, vSAN Host, and vSAN Disk Group.
   5. Locate the relevant vSAN alert definitions (e.g., vSAN cluster health, network partition, disk errors) and change their State to Enabled.
   6. Save the policy.
      Aria Operations will now actively trigger these vSAN alerts based on the exact same underlying cluster conditions evaluated by vCenter.
2. Method 2: Ingest vCenter Alarms via the vCenter Adapter: If you strictly require Aria Operations to mirror the exact alarms triggered inside vCenter:
   1. Navigate to Administration > Integrations and select Accounts.
      (Older version : Navigate to Data Sources > Integrations and select Accounts).
   2. Edit the vCenter Server adapter instance that manages the "Umbrella" cluster.
   3. Expand the Advanced Settings section.
   4. Verify that Process Alarms and Process Events are set to True.
   5. Click Validate Connection, then Save.
      vCenter alarms triggered on the Umbrella cluster will now be ingested as fault events and surfaced as alerts on the corresponding objects in Aria Operations.

But for custom alert, there is no supported way to replicate these alarm/alerts.

Additional Information

Reference documents:

Managing Alert Groups in VMware Aria Operations

Understanding Alerts in VMware Aria Operations