How to modify the vCenter Events being collected by Aria Operations

Products

• VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) 8.x

Issue/Introduction

• This article describes how to check and modify the vCenter events collected by VMware Aria Operations.

Environment

Aria Operations 8.18

Resolution

• The list of vCenter events being collected by Aria Operations is present in this text file /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/vmwarevi_adapter3/conf/eventlist.txt 
• The events not being collected are hashed out like in the image below.
  
  
  
  
  
• The Events that are being collected are those that aren't commented out, those without hashtags in front of them, they look like this.
  
  
  
  
• In order to enable collection of an event, remove the # from the beginning of the line and save the file. In the below example we will try to enable event vim.event.AlarmStatusChangedEvent as showing the above screen shot.
  
  
  
  save the file :wq! 
  
  
• Now restart analytics service on the primary and data nodes by running "service analytics restart" on them.
• You should now start seeing the event in Aria Operations.

Additional Information

vCenter Events Collected by the vCenter Adapter

These events being collected will generally have an Alert/Symptom combination defined against them as well, using the Message Event or Fault Symptoms.

To know exactly what Event Types are being sent, map the Event in eventless.txt to its corresponding Event Type in describe.xml (same location /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/vmwarevi_adapter3/conf/). For example, the com.vmware.vc.HA.HostAgentErrorEvent is a Fault event type as shown here.

# cat describe.xml | grep -i HostAgentErrorEvent
            <ProblemEvent faultScore="100" key="com.vmware.vc.HA.HostAgentErrorEvent" nameKey="7545"/>
                <Condition faultevent="com.vmware.vc.HA.HostAgentErrorEvent" key="fault|host|ha" type="fault"/>

 

NOTE: Importing all of the events can affect performance and capacity of Aria Operations, so be careful on what is being enabled.