8. vCloud Integration Examples : 8.1 vCenter Operations Manager : 8.1.7 Alerts, Events, and Health
   
8.1.7 Alerts, Events, and Health
The Health Status Dashboard is shown in Figure 61, and is built using the following widgets:
*Cluster Health Bar (Figure 57).
*Alerts (Figure 58).
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