VMware 4817V62 - vSphere - PC Administration Manual page 244

vSphere Basic System Administration
Table 21-17. Default vSphere Alarm Actions
Action
Send a notification email
Send a notification trap
Run a command
Enter or exit maintenance
mode
Enter or exit standby
Reboot or shut down host
Suspend the virtual
machine
Power on or power off the
virtual machine
Reset the virtual machine
Migrate the virtual
machine
Reboot or shutdown the
guest
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Description
SMTP sends an email message. The SMTP must be ready
when the email message is sent. You can set SMTP
through vCenter Server.
SNMP sends a notification trap. vCenter Server is the
default SNMP notification receiver. An SNMP trap
viewer is required to view a sent trap.
Performs the operation defined in the script you specify.
It runs as separate process and does not block vCenter
Server processes.
Puts the host in and out of maintenance mode.
Maintenance mode restricts virtual machine operations
on the host. You put a host in maintenance mode when
you need to move or service it.
Suspends or resumes the guest operating system on the
virtual machine.
Reboots or shuts down the host.
Suspends the virtual machine when the alarm triggers.
You can use the suspend feature to make resources
available on a short-term basis or for other situations in
which you want to put a virtual machine on hold without
powering it down.
Power on starts the virtual machine and boots the guest
operating system if the guest operating system is
installed.
Power off is analogous to pulling the power cable on a
physical machine. It is not a graceful shutdown of the
guest operating system, but is used when a shut down
might not succeed. For example, a shut down will not
work if the guest operating system is not responding.
Pauses activity on the virtual machine. Transactions are
frozen until you issue a Resume command.
Powers off the virtual machine and migrates it according
to the settings you define when you created the alarm
action.
Reboot shuts down and restarts the guest operating
system without powering off the virtual machine.
Shutdown shuts down the guest operating system
gracefully.
Alarm Object
datacenter, datastore, cluster,
host, resource pool, virtual
machine, network, vNetwork
distributed switch, dvPort group
datacenter, datastore, cluster,
host, resource pool, virtual
machine
datacenter, datastore, cluster,
host, resource pool, virtual
machine, network, vNetwork
distributed switch, dvPort group
host
host
host
virtual machine
virtual machine
virtual machine
virtual machine
virtual machine
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