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I’ve been trying out XtraVirt‘s vAlarm:-
vAlarm is a Windows® based application which monitors alarms generated by VMware® vCenter.
The product is designed to be installed on an administrators PC, and provides automated monitoring of vCenter alarms without needing to be logged into a full VI Client console.
The software automatically communicates with a vCenter server on a user configurable schedule, and notifies any active alarms via a popup information bubble in the notification area of a users desktop.
The option to show details of all active alarms displays an information dialogue which lists individual alarms with detailed descriptions.
It’s turned out to be quite handy, as it’s making me far more conscious of alarms. It might even encourage me to modify the default set of alarms – I’m generally not interested in guests going into the red because of CPU or memory due to the nature of the way they’re used, but I do need to know when hosts and datastores are running close to capacity.
The system tray application pops up a bubble, even when there are no alarms, which isn’t strictly necessary, and it might be nice to be able to collate notifications from more than one vCenter Server (I’m currently watching over two); but these are minor quibbles about a free product.
You can download vAlarm from XtraVirt (free registration required).
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