Enable Virtual Monitoring Event Listeners (Hyper-V)
Enable Virtual Monitoring Event Listeners (Hyper-V) listeners are available on Hyper-V Host devices. Event Log Collection is turned off by default.
Enabling Hyper-V event listening is necessary for:
Start/stop log event collection
Enable Virtual Monitoring event collection from the Properties panel of each Hyper-V host device.
Start/stop Virtual Monitoring log event collection (Hyper-V)
- Find the Hyper-V device on My Network Map or the collapsible device grid.
- Select it.
Device properties card displays.
- On the device properties card, click Monitor Setup (
).Monitors Setup panel displays.
- Scroll down to the Monitors tab, in the column, click the Hyper-V Host Event Log Monitor link, and enable your preferred log collection category, severity, and detail options.
- In the column, switch on the monitor (
). - After a few moments, open the Hyper-V Event Log ( menu ) to view log messages. Adjust the level of detail and category of message as needed.
Choose event types
Hyper-V event types.
Option
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Description
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Hyper-V-Config
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Relates to virtual machine configuration files. For example, a missing or corrupt virtual machine configuration file generates these types of event messages.
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Hyper-V-EmulatedNic-Admin
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Messages related to emulation of the host NIC.
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Hyper-V-High-Availability
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Denotes actions and changes that happen because of Hyper-V clustering. (Applicable to full versions of Windows Server 2012)
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Hyper-V-Hypervisor
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Hypervisor specific events. For example, a hypervisor fails to start.
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Hyper-V-Image-Management-Service-Admin
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Information related to virtual hard disk operations.
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Hyper-V-Integration-Admin
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Integration services events.
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Hyper-V-Network-Admin
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Messages related to the creation of virtual networks.
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Hyper-VShared-VHDX
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Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) messages for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 (VHDX).
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Hyper-V-SythFc-Admin
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Messages for virtual Fibre Channel used to connect to virtual SANS.
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Hyper-V-SynthNic
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Virtual network adapter events. For example, event messages for each time a virtual machine with virtual network adapters powers up or fails to power up as the result of a network adapter configuration issue.
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Hyper-V-SynthStor
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Virtual hard disk events that are associated with running virtual machines (storage equivalent of the SynthNic section).
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Hyper-V-VID
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Messages related to the Virtualization Infrastructure Driver (VID).
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Hyper-V-VMMS
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Messages concerning virtual machine management services event files such as partition management, virtual processor management, and memory management.
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Hyper-V-VmSwitch-Operational
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Host virtual switch messages.
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Hyper-V-Worker
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VM worker process specific events.
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