VMware Host Health Event Monitor Reference Guide
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Overview
The VMware Host Health Event Monitor is designed to track various metrics and performance values for your VMware hosts, ensuring optimal operation and timely alerts for potential issues.
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Use Cases
- Overall Host Health: Continuously monitor the health and performance of VMware hosts.
- Resource Availability: Ensure adequate disk space and memory are available on hosts.
- Performance Metrics: Monitor CPU usage, bandwidth, and response times.
Monitoring Options
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Alerts and Notifications
- Host Reachability: Alerts if PIM+ could not contact the VMware host.
- CPU Usage: Alerts when CPU utilization crosses specified thresholds.
- File Count: Alerts based on the number of files in specified directories.
- Disk Space Usage: Notifies when disk space on certain drives is running low. Drives to ignore can be specified using patterns like "deviceName(*)".
- Memory Usage: Alerts based on the percentage of used physical memory.
- Network Performance: Monitors ping response times and total, incoming, and outgoing bandwidth rates.
- Port Configuration: Supports custom SSH port settings if VMware hosts are using non-standard ports.
Authentication and Security
- Permissions Required: The account used for monitoring must have view permissions for the VMware REST API or administrative rights.
Protocols
Data Points
| Data Point | Description |
|---|---|
| Active Memory | The amount of memory that's currently in use. |
| Available Memory | The total memory available. |
| Available Memory % | The percentage of available memory. |
| Average CPU Readiness | The average CPU readiness, in percent. |
| Average Response Time | The average ping response time. |
| CPU Ready Time | The amount of time the CPU spent in a ready state. |
| CPU Usage | The percentage of CPU that's being used. |
| Space Used | The amount of space that's been used already. |
| Total: Incoming | The total incoming bandwidth for your VMWare host. |
| Total: Outgoing | The total outgoing bandwidth for your VMWare host. |
| Total Memory | The total memory for your VMWare host. |
| Used Memory | The amount of memory used. |
| Used Memory % | The percentage of memory used. |
Sample Output
