I just tried on another host which has never been in production and still got an alert email when I restarted it in maintenance mode.
Just found this post: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/119038 so guess this feature doesn't work (we have v2.5 running) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Martin Blackstone <mblackst...@gmail.com> wrote: > What if you put the host into Maintenance Mode? That should stop the alarm. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:09 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: VMWare alarm question > > Hoping one of you VMWare gurus can answer this.... > > I'm updating the firmware on some of our ESX servers. In virtual > center, there is an alarm defined at the datacenter level to email an > alert when a host loses connection to VC. Is there a way to disable > this alarm when performing maintenance on an individual server? The > host indicates the alarm is read only except at the top level, and I > obviously don't want to disable all of the alarms. Creating an alarm > for each host just to be able to this isn't a very good solution > either. Is there a better way? > > Thanks, > Jeff > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
