VMware VirtualCenter 1.0 Support Documentation

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This chapter describes how to create and edit alarms, and how to view events. Events are messages that report VirtualCenter activity. Alarms are notifications that occur in response to selected events. Events are predefined by VirtualCenter.

You must have the role of VirtualCenter Administrator privileges to work with alarms. You need only the role of Read Only User to view events.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Working with Events
• Working with Alarms

View the events, alarms, and logs from three locations:

• Events panel — Displays all the events generated throughout VirtualCenter.
• Events tab in the inventory panel — Displays the events for the selected VirtualCenter object. options include: farms, hosts, and virtual machines. Events are not applied to groups. This is a subset of the list of messages in the Events panel.
• Alarms tab in the inventory panel — Displays the list of alarms that are activated upon designated events. Alarms can apply to groups, farms, hosts, and virtual machines.