Configure VMware event listener
Use this dialog to select the events you want to collect from the vCenter server, and to start and stop the collection of these events.
- . Dual mode button that starts and stops event collection.
- Click to enable event collection. The event collection status message reads, "Event collection is ENABLED for this vCenter server".
- Click to disable event collection. The event collection status message reads, "Event collection is DISABLED for this vCenter server".
Use options in the event selection area to select events you want to collect.
- . Select this option to select the HA error events. The events in this category are:
- . Records that the vCenter cannot contact any primary host in the High Availability (HA) cluster.
- . Records when a host failure has been detected by VMware High Availability (HA).
- . Records that the cluster resources are insufficient to satisfy the configured HA failover level
- . Records when there is a HA error on a host.
- . Records when the VMware High Availability (HA) does not find sufficient resources to failover a virtual machine.
- . Records that an error occurred when updating the HA agents with the current state of the virtual machine.
- . Records when a virtual machine failover was unsuccessful.
- . Select this option to receive the virtual machine migration events. The events in this category are:
- . Records the receipt of a migration warning or error.
- . Records the receipt of a migration error.
- . Records a migration error that includes the destination host.
- . Records a migration warning that includes the destination host.
- . Records a migration error that includes both the destination host and the resource pool.
- . Records a migration warning that includes both the destination host and the resource pool.
- . Records the receipt of a migration warning.
- . Records that a virtual machine is being hot-migrated.
- . Records that a virtual machine is being migrated.
- . Records a virtual machine migration.
- . Records a virtual machine migration initiated by Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS).
- . Select this option to receive security related events. The events in this category are:
- . Records a failed user log on.
- . Records a failed user log on due to insufficient access permission.
- . Select this option to select additional events you want to receive.
- . Click to open the event tree. You can expand the tree to select individual events in each category.