Hyper-V Host Event Log Monitor
Hyper-V Host Event Log Monitor enables you to filter and process Hyper-V Event Log messages. WhatsUp Gold adds this performance monitor automatically when a device satisifies the definition for Hyper-V Host role used by Discovery. This monitor is often used with one or more configured Hyper-V Thresholds.
: For more information on how to discover virtual hosts and virtual machines, see Monitoring Virtual Machines and Infrastructure.
Hyper-V Host Event Log Monitor is turned off by default. After you enable the monitor, you can then select the category and detail of messages you want to log/process.
Enable Hyper-V Host Event Log Monitor
To switch this monitor on:
- Find/select a monitored device in My Network with the subrole "Hyper-V Host" and click Device Properties .
- In Device Properties, select the Monitors tab and then select Hyper-V Host Event Log monitor .
- With Hyper-V Host Event Log monitor selected, Click .
Log messages can be viewed by way of the Hyper-V Event Log, which updates based on the monitor's collection interval.
Configure Hyper-V Host Event Log Monitor
Edit the polling interval and filter message categories for Hyper-V Host Event Log Monitor:
- In Device Properties, select the Monitors tab and then select Hyper-V Host Event Log monitor .
- Click 'edit' and configure the following:
- . Interval to check for messages.
- . Level of detail and severity of the messages listened for.
- . Message category.
Select the checkboxes to include the Hyper-V Event Log messages you want to include in monitoring.
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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