8.1.7 Alerts, Events, and Health
The Health Status Dashboard is
shown in Figure 61, and is built using
the following widgets: Figure 61. Health Status Dashboard
The Health widget can be used to display management and resource cluster health information. The widget is configured as follows.
Table 28. Example Health Widget Configuration.
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 62. 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.
Table 29. Example alerts Widget Configuration
Metric | Value |
Refresh Widget | On |
Widget Refresh Interval | 300 |
Tags to Filter | Cluster compute resource (select clusters) |
The following figure shows the completed widget.
Figure 63. Alerts Widget
Double-click an alert to direct vCenter Operations Manager to open a more detailed page displaying information about the event. The following figure shows an example of the details for an alert.
Figure 64. Alerts Information Detail