vcenter server 5.5 (not appliance, but server 2008 r2) not showing hardware alerts

[meshipc]

the alert does show on the vcenter interface, but nothing on the pulseway client or app 

i do have communication because i can manage the vm's and such. i can also see under events. but nothing under alerts or alarms in pulseway

[Chris]

Hi,

 

Welcome to Pulseway community!

 

Thank you for your report. I've notified the development team and they will surely take a look at vCenter alarms as soon as possible.

 

Regards,

Chris

Pulseway Support

[affer]

i am not able to recieve alerts from VMWare either.. 

i can see the cluster fine from pulseway, but no joy when alarms occure.

 

(i have only tested with one self made alarm)

 

//Rasmus

[Chris]

Hi Rasmus,

 

Thank you for your post. Can you install PowerCLI and run the following script to see if the alarms are being correctly reported by VMware as triggered?

$esx_all = Get-VMHost | Get-View
$Report=@()
foreach ($esx in $esx_all){
    foreach($triggered in $esx.TriggeredAlarmState){
        If ($triggered.OverallStatus -like "red" ){
            $lineitem={} | Select Name, AlarmInfo
            $alarmDef = Get-View -Id $triggered.Alarm
            $lineitem.Name = $esx.Name
            $lineitem.AlarmInfo = $alarmDef.Info.Name
            $Report+=$lineitem
        } 
    }
}
$Report |Sort Name

Regards,

Chris

Pulseway Support

[affer]

i created the above script in a ps1 fil, and tryed to run it after install of power cli.. i get no output what so ever, not even an error of the script.

 

the script is runned with one alarm in triggered alarms in vSphere Client.

[Chris]

Hi Rasmus,

 

We though as much. It's because the VMware API that Pulseway and PowerCLI uses happens to report triggered alarm statuses as gray (a.k.a. not triggered) instead of red (as the script is checking for). We are still working on getting a fix with VMware for this problem.

 

Regards,

Chris

Pulseway Support

[affer]

I will look forward to get this fix, crucial for our surveillance :-)

 

thanks for fast reply.

 

//Rasmus

[affer]

Any update to this issue?

 

thanks

[Chris]

Hi,

 

Unfortunately, we didn't get any response from VMware. We have three opened tickets with them at this moment and no replies yet.

 

Regards,

Chris

Pulseway Support

[jamesweston]

Hi,

 

Are there any updates regarding this issue. As pulseway is not alerting to Hardware failures on our esxi servers.

 

Thanks, James