Thursday 30 March 2017

Alarm Override at Virtual Machine Workaround

Just recently in a delivery of vSphere, a participant asked for this question:-

Could we override an alarm created at datacenter object on an individual virtual machine?

Directly it will not allow as you could check in the below given screenshot:




A workaround for this is to create two different folders: FOLDER 1 for which you want to EXCLUDE virtual machines and FOLDER 2 in which you want to include virtual machines.

Instead of creating an alarm at data center Object level. Create an alarm at the folder level.








When you set an alarm on a parent object, such as a vCenter Server, a data center, or a cluster, all applicable child objects inherit the alarm. You can also set an alarm on a folder to propagate the same alarm to all objects contained in that folder. You cannot change or override an alarm that is set on a child object from its parent object. You must change the alarm on the child object itself.








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