Hi Everyone,
Does anyone have experience Solarwinds giving false "down" alerts on with virtual servers?
It happened on a server yesterday morning, twice. We received alerts from Solarwinds that a particular server was down around 7:00 and 8:00 AM.
In looking at the application logs for that time on the server I spied numerous line items:
| Information | 10/9/2014 7:08 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 7:08 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 7:06 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 7:06 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:57 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:57 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:55 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:55 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:46 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:46 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
If I understand this correctly these are coming from the VMWare tools that is installed on the virtual instance?
Can this be causing Solarwinds to see the server being down?
Thanks everyone,
Cheryl