System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Mac Address

Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.2016.VirtualNetworkAdapter.MacAddressAvailabilityMonitor (UnitMonitor)

Monitors whether the host-assigned MAC address pool is out of addresses

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This monitor tracks if the MAC Address is unavailable.

Causes

The MAC Address is unavailable.

Resolutions

There are more virtual machines than the dynamic MAC address generator can support. Allocate a status MAC address for this virtual machine.

Element properties:

Target

Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.2016.VNic

Parent Monitor

System.Health.AvailabilityState

Category

AvailabilityHealth

Enabled

False

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

MatchMonitorHealth

Alert Priority

Normal

Alert Auto Resolve

True

Monitor Type

Microsoft.Windows.2SingleEventLog2StateMonitorType

Remotable

True

Accessibility

Public

Alert Message

Host assigned MAC address pool is out of addresses

{0}

RunAs

Default

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.2016.VirtualNetworkAdapter.MacAddressAvailabilityMonitor" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="false" Target="VMM2016Discovery!Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.2016.VNic" ParentMonitorID="SystemHealth!System.Health.AvailabilityState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.2SingleEventLog2StateMonitorType" ConfirmDelivery="true">

  <Category>AvailabilityHealth</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.2016.VirtualNetworkAdapter.MacAddressAvailabilityMonitor.AlertMessage">

    <AlertOnState>Error</AlertOnState>

    <AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>

    <AlertPriority>Normal</AlertPriority>

    <AlertSeverity>MatchMonitorHealth</AlertSeverity>

    <AlertParameters>

      <AlertParameter1>$Data/Context/EventDescription$</AlertParameter1>

    </AlertParameters>

  </AlertSettings>

  <OperationalStates>

    <OperationalState ID="UnavailableAddressError" MonitorTypeStateID="FirstEventRaised" HealthState="Error"/>

    <OperationalState ID="Available" MonitorTypeStateID="SecondEventRaised" HealthState="Success"/>

  </OperationalStates>

  <Configuration>

    <FirstComputerName>$Target/Host/Property[Type="VMMBase!Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.VirtualMachine"]/HostName$</FirstComputerName>

    <FirstLogName>Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-SynthNic-Admin</FirstLogName>

    <FirstExpression>

      <And>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">PublisherName</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="String">Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-SynthNic</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <Or>

            <Expression>

              <SimpleExpression>

                <ValueExpression>

                  <XPathQuery>EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>

                </ValueExpression>

                <Operator>Equal</Operator>

                <ValueExpression>

                  <Value>12564</Value>

                </ValueExpression>

              </SimpleExpression>

            </Expression>

            <Expression>

              <SimpleExpression>

                <ValueExpression>

                  <XPathQuery>EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>

                </ValueExpression>

                <Operator>Equal</Operator>

                <ValueExpression>

                  <Value>12565</Value>

                </ValueExpression>

              </SimpleExpression>

            </Expression>

          </Or>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Params/Param[1]</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="String">$Target/Host/Property[Type="System!System.Entity"]/DisplayName$</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Params/Param[3]</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="String">$Target/Property[Type="VMMBase!Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.VNic"]/DeviceID$</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

      </And>

    </FirstExpression>

    <SecondComputerName>$Target/Host/Property[Type="VMMBase!Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.VirtualMachine"]/HostName$</SecondComputerName>

    <SecondLogName>Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-SynthNic-Admin</SecondLogName>

    <SecondExpression>

      <And>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">PublisherName</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="String">Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-SynthNic</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <Or>

            <Expression>

              <SimpleExpression>

                <ValueExpression>

                  <XPathQuery>EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>

                </ValueExpression>

                <Operator>Equal</Operator>

                <ValueExpression>

                  <Value>12582</Value>

                </ValueExpression>

              </SimpleExpression>

            </Expression>

            <Expression>

              <SimpleExpression>

                <ValueExpression>

                  <XPathQuery>EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>

                </ValueExpression>

                <Operator>Equal</Operator>

                <ValueExpression>

                  <Value>12583</Value>

                </ValueExpression>

              </SimpleExpression>

            </Expression>

          </Or>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Params/Param[1]</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="String">$Target/Host/Property[Type="System!System.Entity"]/DisplayName$</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Params/Param[3]</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="String">$Target/Property[Type="VMMBase!Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.VNic"]/DeviceID$</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

      </And>

    </SecondExpression>

  </Configuration>

</UnitMonitor>