8.1.7 Alerts, Events, and Health
The Health Status Dashboard appears as shown in Figure 67, and is made from the following widgets:
Figure 67. Health Status Dashboard
The Health widget can be used to display management and resource cluster health information. The widget is configured as follows:
Metric | Value |
Self Provider | On |
Mode | Self |
Refresh Widget | On |
Widget Refresh Interval | 300 |
Order by | Health (asc) |
Period Length | Last 7 days |
Tags to Filter by | Cluster compute resource (select clusters) |
Figure 68. Cluster Health Bar
The Alerts Widget can display alerts that have been generated. Alerts in this widget can be displayed for clusters or virtual machines. The correct filter must be applied. This widget displays alerts for the clusters. If needed, the VM Entity Status filter can be selected to include Powered:On or Powered:Off virtual machines.
This widget is configured as shown in the following table.
Metric | Value |
Refresh Widget | On |
Widget Refresh Interval | 300 |
Tags to Filter | Cluster compute resource (select clusters) |
The completed widget displays as follows:
Figure 69. Alerts Widget
Double-c
lick an alert
to direct vCenter Operations Manager to
open a more detailed page displaying information about the event. Figure 70 displays an example of the details for an alert.
Figure 70. Alerts Information Detail