Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED
Yes, it still sends an alert. I think it is counter intuitive, but I suppose alerts remain enabled because VMs may still be running on the host while it is in maintenance mode. Still, an option to disable alerts sounds like an obvious feature... On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Greg Mulholland g...@krystaltek.comwrote: do you still get the alert in maintenance mode though? i thought you said you did before. Greg -- *From:* Jeff Bunting [bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Saturday, 17 January 2009 1:25 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED To follow up, I found the Update Manager plugin and tried this out. Update Manager will not work on a host in the disconnected state; the scan and remediate options are grayed out. Looks like you have to be in maintenance mode for that. Jeff On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.comwrote: Can you still run Update Manager against it in a disconnected state? *From:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 09, 2009 1:35 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED 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/ ~
Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED
To follow up, I found the Update Manager plugin and tried this out. Update Manager will not work on a host in the disconnected state; the scan and remediate options are grayed out. Looks like you have to be in maintenance mode for that. Jeff On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.comwrote: Can you still run Update Manager against it in a disconnected state? *From:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 09, 2009 1:35 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED 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/ ~
RE: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED
do you still get the alert in maintenance mode though? i thought you said you did before. Greg From: Jeff Bunting [bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 17 January 2009 1:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED To follow up, I found the Update Manager plugin and tried this out. Update Manager will not work on a host in the disconnected state; the scan and remediate options are grayed out. Looks like you have to be in maintenance mode for that. Jeff On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.commailto:mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: Can you still run Update Manager against it in a disconnected state? From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.commailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED 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.commailto: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.commailto: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.commailto: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.commailto: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/ ~
Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED
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/ ~
RE: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED
Can you still run Update Manager against it in a disconnected state? From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED 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/ ~
Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED
I don't know, I don't think we have Update Manager. I'm mounting a Dell disc to update the BIOS and firmware on the R900 itself. Jeff On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.comwrote: Can you still run Update Manager against it in a disconnected state? *From:* Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 09, 2009 1:35 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED 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/ ~
RE: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED
Im confused so what they are saying is you should disconnect a host from VC if you want to perform such maintenance on it?? doesnt that go against the whole maintenance mode principle? and besides dont you actually WANT the alert to be triggered if you 'disconnect' a host, even if it happens by itself during the 9-5, isnt that the whole idea or am i missing something? Greg From: Jeff Bunting [bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2009 8:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED 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.commailto: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.commailto: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.commailto: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.commailto: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/ ~
