Enable Virtual Monitoring Event Listeners (VMware)
Start/stop log event collection
Enable Virtual Monitoring event collection from the Virtualization tab on the Device Properties (
) panel of each vCenter server device.
Start/stop Virtual Monitoring log event collection
- Find the Virtual Monitoring vCenter device My Network Map or the collapsible device grid.
- Select it.
Device properties panel displays.
- On the device card, click Device Properties ().
Device Properties Panel displays.
- Click on the Virtual Monitoring tab, click on the Enable button and choose the different event categories you want log messages for.
Choose event categories
High Availability error events.- All HA (High Availability) error events. Select this option to include HA error events which include the following:
- 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.
- VM Failover Failed. Records when a virtual machine failover was unsuccessful.
Virtual machine migration events.- 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.
- All HA (High Availability) error events. Select this option to include HA error events which include the following:
- After a few moments, open the VMware Event log (ANALYZE menu > Logs > VMware Event Log) to view log messages.
- Refine the level of detail and category of event messages as needed.
- Add threshold alerting and notifications wrapped in policies for reacting to Virtual Monitoring events (as needed).
Choose event categories
High Availability error events.
- All HA (High Availability) error events. Select this option to include HA error events which include the following:
- 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.
- VM Failover Failed. Records when a virtual machine failover was unsuccessful.
Virtual machine migration events.
- 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.