NSX Manager not displaying alarms in the Alarms Dashboard

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

• The Alarms Dashboard in NSX Manager is not displaying any alarms.
  

Environment

VMware NSX

Cause

The infra doesn't have any issues that match the Alarm Definitions and the old alarms have likely expired.

Resolution

This is an expected behavior when there are no issues on the infra.

Additional Information

View Alarm Information

To test whether the Alarm framework is working just fine, a test alarm can be created by creating a dummy file in the NSX manager /tmp directory by running the command below.
fallocate -l 3G /tmp/bigfile

This should trigger an alarm within few minutes that gets displayed on the NSX manager UI.

To remove the file, run the below command.
rm /tmp/bigfile