I was poking around the support site and ran across a bulletin instructing you to disconnect the host to make a change to a configuration file on it. Checking VC help, it said:
*Disconnecting a managed host does not remove it from the VirtualCenter inventory. It temporarily suspends all VirtualCenter monitoring activities. The managed host and its associated virtual machines remain in the VirtualCenter inventory.* So disconnecting the host from VC will suppress the alerts from being sent. Jeff On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Greg Mulholland <g...@krystaltek.com> wrote: > i'd encourage you then to log it with vmware. this seems like something they should fix as it will continue to drive people crazy. > > Greg > ________________________________________ > From: Jeff Bunting [bunting.j...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2009 7:00 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: VMWare alarm question > > 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/> ~ > ~ 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/> ~
