In my previous post (https://thomas-kopton.de/vblog/?p=2198), I detailed how to track HA-induced Virtual Machine restarts in VCF Operations, including the required symptoms, alert definitions, and REST Webhook notifications. However, in larger setups, with potentially over 20 VMs per ESX host, receiving 20 individual notifications is impractical. This simply creates alert fatigue and undermines the entire alerting …
Category: Alerting
Monitoring HA VM Restarts in VCF Operations
Someone recently asked me if there’s a straightforward way to notify Virtual Machine owners as soon as their VMs were affected by an HA Event. Apparently, suitable alarm definitions are not available out-of-the-box in VCF Operations, and the customer asked for a solution. Scenario The scenario is therefore quite simple: First Approach Initially, I considered …
Automated Workflows using VMware Aria Operations SNMP Trap Plugin
SNMP, likely one of the oldest protocols in OSI Layer 7, is still used today in the monitoring environments and offers a very simple way, with SNMP traps, to send messages from one system to another to trigger an action. This action could involve executing an automated workflow. In this post, I describe how the …
VMware Aria Operations for Logs Alerts as Symptoms in Aria Operations
As is likely known to everyone, the integration between VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs involves forwarding alarms generated in Aria Operations for Logs to Aria Operations. If the integration has also established the link between the origin of the log message that triggered the alarm and the object in Aria Operations, the …