Configure VMware event listener

How to get here

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.

• Start/Stop collecting. Dual mode button that starts and stops event collection.
  • Click Start collecting to enable event collection. The event collection status message reads, "Event collection is ENABLED for this vCenter server".
  • Click Stop collecting 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.

• All HA (High Availability) error events. Select this option to select the HA error events. The events in this category are:
  • DAS Agent Unavailable. Records that the vCenter cannot contact any primary host in the High Availability (HA) cluster.
  • DAS Host Failed. Records when a host failure has been detected by VMware High Availability (HA).
  • Insufficient Failover Resources. Records that the cluster resources are insufficient to satisfy the configured HA failover level
  • Host DAS Error. Records when there is a HA error on a host.
  • Not Enough Resources to Start VM. Records when the VMware High Availability (HA) does not find sufficient resources to failover a virtual machine.
  • VM DAS Update Error. Records that an error occurred when updating the HA agents with the current state of the virtual machine.
• All Virtual machine migration events. Select this option to receive the virtual machine migration events. The events in this category are:
  • Migration. Records the receipt of a migration warning or error.
  • Migration Error. Records the receipt of a migration error.
  • Migration Host Error. Records a migration error that includes the destination host.
  • Migration Host Warning. Records a migration warning that includes the destination host.
  • Migration Resource Error. Records a migration error that includes both the destination host and the resource pool.
  • Migration Resource Warning. Records a migration warning that includes both the destination host and the resource pool.
  • Migration Warning. Records the receipt of a migration warning.
  • Vm Being Hot Migrated. Records that a virtual machine is being hot-migrated.
  • Vm Being Migrated. Records that a virtual machine is being migrated.
  • Vm Migrated. Records a virtual machine migration.
  • Drs Vm Migrated. Records a virtual machine migration initiated by Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• All security related events. Select this option to receive security related events. The events in this category are:
  • Bad Username Session. Records a failed user log on.
  • No Access User. Records a failed user log on due to insufficient access permission.
• Other events. Select this option to select additional events you want to receive.
  • Advanced. Click Advanced to open the event tree. You can expand the tree to select individual events in each category.