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Table 21-5. Host Condition and State Triggers (Continued)
Trigger Name Description Trigger Type
Console SwapOut Rate
(KBps)
Rate at which the service console kernel is swapping out memory. The
Console Swapout Rate indicates memory pressure in the service console.
A high value is generally a precursor to timeout operations. To fix the
problem, consider adding more memory or ending the memory-intensive
task.
Condition
CPU Usage (%) Amount of physical CPU (MHz) used by the ESX/ESXi host. The
calculation is:
Host CPU Usage (%) = CPU usage [MHz] / (# of physical CPUs x clock
rate [MHz]) x 100
Condition
Disk Usage (KBps) Sum of the data read from and written to all disk instances on the host. Condition
Memory Usage (%) Amount of physical RAM (MB) consumed by the ESX/ESXi host. The
calculation is:
Host Memory Usage (%) = Consumed Memory [MB] / physical RAM of
server [MB] x 100
Condition
Network Usage (kbps) Sum of data transmitted and received for all the NIC instances of the host. Condition
Power State Current power state of the host:
n
Powered On – The host is powered on.
n
Powered Off – The host is powered off.
n
Suspended – The host is suspended.
State
Swap Pages Write (KBps) Rate at which host memory is swapped out to the disk. Condition
Datastore Condition and State Triggers
VMware provides preconfigured alarms that trigger when datastores undergo certain conditions and states.
Table 21-6 lists the default Condition and State triggers you can set on datastores.
Table 21-6. Datastore Condition and State Triggers
Trigger Type Trigger Name Description
Condition Datastore Disk
Overallocation (%)
Amount of overallocated disk space in the datastore.
Condition Datastore Disk Usage
(%)
Amount of disk space (KB) used by the datastore.
State Datastore State to All
Hosts
n
Connected to all hosts – The datastore is connected to at least one
host.
n
Disconnected from all hosts – The datastore is disconnected from at
least one host.
Event Triggers
Event triggers monitor events that occur in response to actions related to managed objects, the vCenter Server
system, and the License Server.
Event triggers use arguments, operators, and values to monitor operations that occur in the vServer System.
Because the occurrance of the event gives you information about the operation occurring in your environment,
you usually will not need to configure arguments for them. However, some events are general and
configuration might be required to set the alarm on the desired information. For example, the Hardware Health
Changed event occurs for a variety of different subsystems on a host.The preconfigured datacenter alarm Host
Hardware Fan Health uses the Hardware Health Changed event with the following two arguments to set a
warning condition when a fan is not operating:
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