Monitoring a cluster

• Highlight the cluster
• Select Summary
• You will see the following page

• Click Advanced Runtime. This tells you the current state of your cluster including the slot information and host information

• Click on Cluster Operational Status to see informational and warning messages associated with your cluster

• Click Cluster Status and tab through the below options

Configuring Alarms

You may setup custom alerts of your own to monitor the health of your HA cluster. However, VMware provides a number of default alerts for you described below. These alarms may be updated to take custom actions. To access these settings, connect to the vCenter server using the vSphere client:

1. Enter the Host and Clusters view (Ctrl + Shift + H)
2. Highlight the vCenter Server
3. Click on the Alarms tab
4. Select the Definitions view
5. Select one of the below described HA default alarms
6. Right click the alarm and select Edit Settings
7. Click the Actions tab

Default System Actions

1. Send a Notification email
2. Send a Notification trap
3. Run a command
4. Power on VM
5. Power off VM
6. Suspend VM
7. Reset VM
8. Migrate VM
9. Reboot Guest VM
10. Shutdown Guest VM

To Configure a Sender Email Account for the vCenter Server

1. Enter the Server Settings dialog (Ctrl + Shift + I)
2. Click on Mail
3. Enter an SMTP Server
4. Enter a Sender Account
5. Note. Additional settings will be required to allow vCenter to use a pre-defined account to send emails. Check with your third party email server documentation when setting up this account.

To Configure SNMP