Track VMware events and VMware error frequency.

Configure a VMware threshold:

• Name. Used in the Threshold library and the title on the Alert Center Home page.
• Virtualization Events type. Select the event type for which you want to create a threshold. The following options are available:
  • All HA (High Availability) error events
  • All Virtual machine migration events
  • All security related events
  • Other events

  Note: When Other events are collected from the vCenter server, and you select Other events in the threshold configuration, you only see those events that were selected when event collection was configured in the Device Properties - Virtualization menu.

  Note: For more information about event types and event type selection, see the Configure VMware event listener dialog help.

• Notification Policy. (Optional) Select the notification policy to apply to this threshold. The policy initiates notifications when an item is outside the configured threshold limits.
• Threshold Check Interval. Enter a time interval for Alert Center to check the Network Performance Monitor database for items that are out of the threshold limits.

Conditions

• Alert if an event occurred within the last Threshold Check of <Threshold_Check_Interval> minutes. Select this option if you want alerts to occur immediately when an event has occurred within the threshold check interval, where <Threshold_Check_Interval> is the value defined in the Threshold Check Interval
• Alert when:. Select this option if you want to define a number of events and time range for the threshold alert.
  • Number of events <exceeds_or_falls_below> <number>. Use this setting to configure the number of events of the selected event type that must be received before firing the alert, where <exceeds_or_falls_below> determines if the number should Exceed or Fall Below the threshold value, and <number> is the threshold value.

Track VMware events and VMware error frequency.

Configure a VMware threshold:

• Name. Used in the Threshold library and the title on the Alert Center Home page.
• Virtualization Events type. Select the event type for which you want to create a threshold. The following options are available:
  • All HA (High Availability) error events
  • All Virtual machine migration events
  • All security related events
  • Other events

  Note: When Other events are collected from the vCenter server, and you select Other events in the threshold configuration, you only see those events that were selected when event collection was configured in the Device Properties - Virtualization menu.

  Note: For more information about event types and event type selection, see the Configure VMware event listener dialog help.

• Notification Policy. (Optional) Select the notification policy to apply to this threshold. The policy initiates notifications when an item is outside the configured threshold limits.
• Threshold Check Interval. Enter a time interval for Alert Center to check the Network Performance Monitor database for items that are out of the threshold limits.

Conditions

• Alert if an event occurred within the last Threshold Check of <Threshold_Check_Interval> minutes. Select this option if you want alerts to occur immediately when an event has occurred within the threshold check interval, where <Threshold_Check_Interval> is the value defined in the Threshold Check Interval
• Alert when:. Select this option if you want to define a number of events and time range for the threshold alert.
  • Number of events <exceeds_or_falls_below> <number>. Use this setting to configure the number of events of the selected event type that must be received before firing the alert, where <exceeds_or_falls_below> determines if the number should Exceed or Fall Below the threshold value, and <number> is the threshold value.

Clone a threshold based on a custom or built-in configuration:

1. Click on a threshold on the Thresholds Library panel you want to copy.
2. Click the Copy button, and click OK to create a new VMware Threshold.

   The Edit VMware Threshold dialog displays.

3. Save or customize your new threshold, either:
   • Type in a new value for Name field (or keep the default) and click OK to save to the Thresholds Library.
   • Follow the Edit VMware Threshold instructions.

Delete an existing VMware Threshold:

1. Select VMware Threshold you want to delete from the VMware Threshold panel.
2. Click the Delete button, and then click Yes to confirm the deletion.

   The VMware Threshold configuration is deleted.