This will just be a quick post to cover the VCAP-DCA objective around creating alarms to monitor DRS and DPM enabled clusters.
vCenter allows you to create alarms to monitor DRS related events. In the Alarms tab, for a host or cluster, under ‘Definitions’, right click and select ‘New Alarm’. In the dialog box for creating the new alarm, choose ‘cluster’ as the alarm type:
You can then create the required triggers to monitor the DRS cluster:
Alerts can be created for DPM by looking for host events. When setting up the alert, select ‘Hosts’ rather than ‘Cluster’ for the alert type:
Ensure that ‘Monitor for specific events’ is selected. Then under the ‘Triggers’ tab you can select relevant DPM related events:
These include:
- DRS cannot exit the host out of standby mode
- DRS entered standby mode
- DRS entering standby mode
- DRS exited standby mode
- DRS exiting standby mode