Monitoring the Datacenter And Host System
Datacenter and host system monitoring lets an administrator monitor infrastructure health by displaying hardware (server and storage) and virtualization-related events on the Tasks & Events tab in vCenter. Additionally, critical hardware alarms can trigger the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter to put the host system into a maintenance mode, and in certain cases migrate the virtual machines to another host system. For hosts prior to Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers, the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter forwards OMSA alarms, and creates new ones for specific events. You can use these alarms to trigger actions that vCenter allows, like a reboot, maintenance mode, or migrate. For example, when a dual power supply fails and an alarm is created, the resulting action can be to migrate the virtual machine on that machine to a new one.
To perform monitoring:
- Configure the Event and Alarm settings.
- Configure OMSA trap destinations, if needed (hosts prior to Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers)
- Use the Tasks & Events tab in vCenter to review event information.