An alarm threshold defines the minimum value of the specified indicator that triggers an alarm. You can set CPU usage, memory usage, and disk usage alarm thresholds for hosts, VMs, and clusters, and set disk throughput and network throughput alarm thresholds for hosts and VMs.
Alarm threshold management enables you to view the predefined alarm thresholds and configure the alarm server, alarm thresholds, and alarming state.
Perform this task to customize the alarms that will be reported by the system.
By default, the host that runs Space Console operates as an alarm server.
At least one alarm server is required.
To enable an alarm threshold, you must complete the configurations of the alarm threshold.
For alarms on the gateway connection failure that detect the gateway's connectivity to Space Console, configure the gateway settings on the external services configuration page, including the gateway's internal IP address.
Perform this task to specify a third-party alarm server to receive the alarm messages sent from Space Console and the managed hosts. Alarm servers must support and run the SNMP service. Before adding a new alarm server, make sure the SNMP community name is consistent with the SNMP settings of the third-party server that receives the alarms. You can configure a maximum of four alarm servers.
From the left navigation pane, select Monitor Reports > Alarms > Alarm Thresholds.
Click Alarm Server Configuration.
Click Create, enter an IP address, port number (6162 by default), and SNMP community name. The default SNMP community name is private. Modify it as needed.
Click OK.
From the left navigation pane, select Monitor Reports > Alarms > Alarm Thresholds.
This page displays the predefined alarm threshold information. You can click Expand All to view the detailed alarm threshold settings.
Alarm Type: Alarm type, including host resource alarms, VM resource alarms, cluster resource alarms, fault alarms, distributed storage resource alarms, desktop alarms, virtual applications alarms, endpoint alarms, VIP desktop alarms, gateway alarms, license alarms, and other alarms.
Critical: Minimum value of the metric that triggers a critical alarm.
Major: Minimum value of the metric that triggers a major alarm.
Minor: Minimum value of the metric that triggers a minor alarm.
Info: Minimum value of the metric that triggers an informational alarm.
Duration: If the metric value stays above the threshold for a time period specified by this parameter, the system generates an alarm. This parameter is required for host resource, VM resource, cluster resource alarms, desktop alarms, virtual application alarms, endpoint alarms,
Alarm Interval: Report interval for a type of alarms for an alarm source. The default is 0 days.
State: State of the alarm threshold, including Enabled and Disabled.
To edit an alarm threshold:
From the left navigation pane, select Monitor Reports > Alarms > Alarm Thresholds.
This page displays the predefined alarm threshold information. You can click Expand All to view the detailed alarm threshold settings.
Click Edit for an item to edit the threshold settings for the item and then click OK. For more information about parameters, see "Parameters."
From the left navigation pane, select Monitor Reports > Alarms > Alarm Thresholds.
Perform either of the following tasks:
To enable or disable multiple alarm threshold settings, select the alarm threshold items, click More and then select Enable Indicators or Disable Indicators.
To enable or disable an alarm threshold, click Enable or Disable in the Actions column for the target alarm threshold item.