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Hello

I have Spectrum 10.2  with sysedge VC AIM to monitor VMware virtual Environment, and I looking for a way to change the threshold on "VM Guest Disk" monitoring table because the "Edit" buttons is not present (look at the attached screenshot)

Does someone has a suggestion ?

Thanks

Antonello

Hi Antonello,

Change the vmvcAimConfigMonVMGuestDiskMonitor (.1.3.6.1.4.1.546.16.52.2.13.5.2.1.8) for each Virtual Machine to disable disk monitoring. Or change the Threshold values.

a) Locate the following files under the C:\Program Files\CA\SystemEDGE\plugins\cavmvcaim\ directory:
- cavmvcaim.server_esx001.acme.com.xml
- cavmvcaim.server_esx002.acme.com.xml

b) Edit the cavmvcaim.server_esx001.acme.com.xml (for example)

c) Search for "<Monitor>2</Monitor>"

You will find this entry for each Virtual Machine managed by the vCenter application:

<table-row>
<UID>69</UID>
<ID>host-1333</ID>
<Monitor>2</Monitor>
<AlertCPUUsageWarnThresh>90</AlertCPUUsageWarnThresh>
<AlertCPUUsageCritThresh>95</AlertCPUUsageCritThresh>
<CPUAlert>3</CPUAlert>
.
.
.
</table-row>
<table-row>
<UID>100</UID>
<ID>host-1758</ID>
<Monitor>2</Monitor>
<AlertCPUUsageWarnThresh>90</AlertCPUUsageWarnThresh>
<AlertCPUUsageCritThresh>95</AlertCPUUsageCritThresh>
<CPUAlert>3</CPUAlert>
.
.
.
</table-row>

d1) To disable disk monitoring, change the value from 2 to 1 of the Monitor parameter for each Virtual Machine:

<table-row>
<UID>69</UID>
<ID>host-1333</ID>
<Monitor>1</Monitor>
<AlertCPUUsageWarnThresh>90</AlertCPUUsageWarnThresh>
<AlertCPUUsageCritThresh>95</AlertCPUUsageCritThresh>
<CPUAlert>3</CPUAlert>
.
.
.
</table-row>
<table-row>
<UID>100</UID>
<ID>host-1758</ID>
<Monitor>1</Monitor>
<AlertCPUUsageWarnThresh>90</AlertCPUUsageWarnThresh>
<AlertCPUUsageCritThresh>95</AlertCPUUsageCritThresh>
<CPUAlert>3</CPUAlert>
.
.
.
</table-row>

d2) To change the threshold parameter, change the value of AlertCPUUsageWarnThresh and AlertCPUUsageCritThresh.

<table-row>
<UID>69</UID>
<ID>host-1333</ID>
<Monitor>2</Monitor>
<AlertCPUUsageWarnThresh>70</AlertCPUUsageWarnThresh>
<AlertCPUUsageCritThresh>80</AlertCPUUsageCritThresh>
<CPUAlert>3</CPUAlert>
.
.
.
</table-row>
<table-row>
<UID>100</UID>
<ID>host-1758</ID>
<Monitor>2</Monitor>
<AlertCPUUsageWarnThresh>70</AlertCPUUsageWarnThresh>
<AlertCPUUsageCritThresh>80</AlertCPUUsageCritThresh>
<CPUAlert>3</CPUAlert>
.
.
.
</table-row>

e) Save the file.

f) Stop/Start the SystemEDGE agent service.

Thanks,

Silvio

Hi Silvio

For testing I changed the attribute in this way:

So now I have some disks that have disk usage over the thresholds but still I'm not receive any event or alarm about disk threshold exceeded

regards

Antonello

Hi Antonello,

Was the configuration file changed?

Did the SpectroSERVER receive the trap from the SystemEDGE + vCenter AIM machine?

Hi Silvio

the Spectroserver is receiving the traps from SystemEDGE + vCenter AIM, for example this is one event received from sysedge+vc AIM regarding "vmvcAimStatVMGuestDiskAddedTrap"

This is an extract of the configuration file

<table-row>
      <UID>9116</UID>
      <VMID>vm-586</VMID>
      <DiskPath>/var/db</DiskPath>
      <DiskCapacity>42</DiskCapacity>
      <FreeSpace>41</FreeSpace>
      <Monitor>2</Monitor>
      <Alert>3</Alert>
      <DiskUsageWarnThresh>10</DiskUsageWarnThresh>
      <DiskUsageCritThresh>20</DiskUsageCritThresh>
    </table-row>

regards

Antonello

Hi, Antonello

There is a same issue in my environment , Spectrum 10.2.2 and SystemEdge 5.9, Now I can receive the other alarms,for example cpu usage、mem usage alarms. But I can't receive any alarm about vm guest disk threshold exceeded.

Have you solved this problem? Can you share your solution?

Thanks a lot 

Chunming

I'm so happy I found this thread.  I'm looking for some similar information.  Did you ever make this work they way you wanted?

I have a question about one of your responses for configuring the thresholds.  Where did you find the interface pictured below?

Thanks

Steve Moore

Hi Steve,

you can find the attributes by searching for the VCAIM application model. Then open the attribute editor and add a user defined attribute.

Within the attribute selector window search for the attributes you need.

Regards,

Rene