Community
- Command Central
- MVP Program
- Monthly Mission
- Blogs
- Groups
- Events
- Media Vault
Products
- Observability
- Network Management
- Application Management
- IT Security
- IT Service Management
- System Management
- Database Management
Content Exchange
- SolarWinds Platform
- Server & Application Monitor
- Database Performance Analyzer
- Server Configuration Monitor
- Network Performance Monitor
- Network Configuration Manager
- SQL Sentry
- Web Help Desk
Free Tools & Trials

Monitoring Virtual Center Events

Questionario

Hi,

we have the requirement to alert on Virtual Center events like if resources are being moved.

Is this somehow possible to do with Orion? Possibly even having an overview? Has anyone done this so far?

Find more posts tagged with

Accepted answers

All comments

jiri.tomek

Hello Questionario,
According to this thread, events can be accessed as text files on vCenter server or through vCenter database. Depending on actual location you can use Windows/Linux script monitor to monitor log files or "SQL Server User Experience Monitor" to execute custom query and check if some event was logged during past X minutes.

Unfortunately SQL monitor gives you only a numeric value so you would have to use some query such as:

SELECT COUNT(EventID) FROM Events WHERE Time > current_time_minus_poll_frequency AND Type = 'resource moved'

and alert only on number of such events.

Questionario

Thanks Jiri!