Monitoring System Health; Monitor Events In View Manager - VMware View Manager 4.5 Admin Manual

VMware View Administrator's Guide

Monitoring System Health

You can use the system health dashboard in View Administrator to quickly see problems that might affect the
operation of View or access to desktops by end users.
The system health dashboard in the top left of the View Administrator display provides a number of links that
you can use to view reports about the operation of View Manager:
Remote Sessions
Local Sessions
Problem Desktops
Events
System Health
The system health dashboard displays a numbered link against each item. This value indicates the number of
items that the linked report provides details about.

Monitor Events in View Manager

The event database stores information about events that occur in the View Connection Server host or group,
View Agents, and the View Administrator, and notifies you of the number of events on the dashboard. You
can examine the events in detail on the Events screen.
N Events are listed in the View Administrator interface for a limited time period. After this time, the events
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are only available in the historical database tables. You can use Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database
reporting tools to examine events in the database tables. For more information, see the VMware View Integration
Guide.
Prerequisites
Create and configure the event database as described in the VMware View Installation Guide.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select Monitoring > Events.
2 (Optional) In the Events window, you can select the time range of the events, apply filtering to the events,
and sort the listed events by one or more of the columns.
View Manager Event Messages
View Manager reports events whenever the state of the system changes or it encounters a problem. You can
use the information in the event messages to take the appropriate action.
Table 15-1 shows the types of events that View Manager reports.
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Provides a link to the Global Remote Sessions screen, which displays
information about the status of remote sessions.
Provides a link to the Global Local Sessions View screen, which displays
information about the status of local desktop sessions.
Provides a link to the Global Desktop View screen, which displays information
about desktops that View Manager has flagged as having problems.
Provides links to the Events screen filtered for error events and for warning
events.
Provides links to the Dashboard screen, which displays summaries of the status
of View components, vSphere components, domains, desktops, and datastore
usage.
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