VMware VirtualCenter: VM outgoing packets Health Monitor

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

Monitors the number of packets transmitted across each physical NIC instance on the Virtual Machine.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

VM outgoing packets is over threshold.

The amount of outgoing packets by the Virtual Machine is above the maximum threshold configured in Xian Network Manager.

Causes

The amount of network Outgoing Packets sent by this virtual machine is growing.

Resolutions

Monitor power operations being performed. Verify that the configuration applied to the Virtual Machine corresponds to requirements. Reconfigure if necessary in correspondence with the environment.

Additional

Monitors the amount of outgoing packets by the Virtual Machine in Milliseconds(ms).

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 outgoing packets Alert

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Source Code:

<AggregateMonitor ID="Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.VMwareVirtualCenters.VmNetPacketsTx.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="VmNetPacketsTx_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>