8. vCloud Management and Monitoring Examples : 8.1 vCenter Operations Manager : 8.1.7 Alerts, Events, and Health
   
8.1.7 Alerts, Events, and Health
The Health Status Dashboard appears as shown in Figure 67, and is made from the following widgets:
*Cluster Health Bar (Figure 63).
*Alerts (Figure 64).
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-click 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