Confio AlarmVM helps VM administrator simplify and manage alarms.
The descriptions below are some of the statistics captured in vCenter that can be used for alarming. AlarmVM sets thresholds automatically based on established best practice levels, but the VM administrator will want to fully understand the captured statistics in order to best respond to the alarm conditions. Check back frequently as we add more vCenter statistics definitions.
- No Host for Secondary VM Alarm: VMware Fault Tolerance
- Secondary VM Needed: VMware Fault Tolerance
- Timeout Starting Secondary VM
- VM Active Memory Usage
- VM CPU Percent Usage
- VMware CPU Ready Time
- VM Disk Bus Resets
- VM Disk Commands Aborted
- VM High Availability Error
- VM High Availability Reset
- VM Memory Ballooning
- VM Memory Swapping
- VM Overloaded Storage Alarm
- VMware Cluster High Availability Error
- VMware Host Connection Failure
- VMware Host CPU Saturation
- VMware Host CPU Usage
- VMware Host Disk Latency
- VMware Host Dropped Packets
- VMware Host Exit Standby Error
- VMware Host Memory Usage
- VMware Host Network Redundancy Degraded
- VMware License User Threshold
- Non-ESX Datastore Workload
- Overloaded Storage
- Slow Storage
- VMware Swapping
- Eliminates need to set up contacts for each alarm
- Easy to see how all alarms are configured
- Lets VM administrators manage who is notified and under what conditions
