vCenter Events and Alarms

Veeam Software, a business continuity product company for virtualization, has a complete list of vCenter Events sorted by ID. Here’s the first event in the list:

ID Severity Group Message Catalog Text
AccountCreatedEvent info Host An account was created on host {host.name}
Since 2.0 Reference

 
Clicking on the ID starts a javascript popup with event details:

Event: AccountCreatedEvent

Cid: ‘200’
ManagedObject: ‘VC’
MessageGroup: ‘MsgGroupHost’
OptionVar: ‘EventId=”${eventid}” Timestamp=”${timestamp}” ComputeResource=”${computeresource}” Datacenter=”${datacenter}” HostName=”${hostname}” Server=”${server}” Username=”${username}” DisplayName=”${vm.name}” UUID=”${vm.uuid}”‘

This event records that an account was created on a host.

Here’s the event when the new ESXi 5.0 syslogd service is unable to communicate with syslog (KB 2003127):

ID Severity Group Message Catalog Text
esx.problem.vmsyslogd.
remote.failure
error VC esx.problem.vmsyslogd.remote.failure|The host “{1}” has become unreachable. Remote logging to this host has stopped.
Since 5.0 Reference

 
This is an important change from prior versions of ESXi, which would not stop logs on an error (note the “Since 5.0” in the Message Catalog Text field). An alarm for this event can easily be created by using “esx.problem.vmsyslogd.remote.failure” as the trigger.

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