VMware VirtualCenter: VM Guest heartbeat status Health Monitor

Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.VMwareVirtualCenters.VmGuestHeartbeatStatus.1.1 (AggregateMonitor)

This monitor catches Xian events that notifies when the VM Guest heartbeat status has changed its state.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

VM guest heartbeat status has changed.

The guest heartbeat status of this Virtual Machine has changed.

Causes

It can be due to some overload on the guest operating system or even because the guest operating system has stopped transmitting heartbeat signals.

Resolutions

Verify the load of the guest operating system in this Virtual Machine.

Additional

Monitors the guest heartbeat status of this Virtual Machine.

Element properties:

Target

Jalasoft.Xian.Common.Elements.ThirdParty.VMWare.JsXVMwareVirtualCenterVirtualMachineElement

Parent Monitor

System.Health.PerformanceState

Algorithm

WorstOf

Category

StateCollection

Enabled

True

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

MatchMonitorHealth

Alert Priority

Low

Alert Auto Resolve

True

Remotable

True

Accessibility

Public

Alert Message

VM Guest heartbeat status Alert

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Source Code:

<AggregateMonitor ID="Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.VMwareVirtualCenters.VmGuestHeartbeatStatus.1.1" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="ThirdParty_VMWare!Jalasoft.Xian.Common.Elements.ThirdParty.VMWare.JsXVMwareVirtualCenterVirtualMachineElement" ParentMonitorID="SystemHealth!System.Health.PerformanceState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal">

  <Category>StateCollection</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="VmGuestHeartbeatStatus_AlertMessage">

    <AlertOnState>Warning</AlertOnState>

    <AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>

    <AlertPriority>Low</AlertPriority>

    <AlertSeverity>MatchMonitorHealth</AlertSeverity>

    <AlertParameters>

      <AlertParameter1>$Data/Context/Params/Param[3]$</AlertParameter1>

    </AlertParameters>

  </AlertSettings>

  <Algorithm>WorstOf</Algorithm>

</AggregateMonitor>