Notifying VMware Alerts

Notification profiles help you to notify when any alert is raised for virtual devices. The notification can be a sound alert / email alert/ running a script etc. You can associate any of the notification profiles that is already created for the ESX host. Click here to create one new, . To associate a notification profile to a virtual device,

  1. Go to the snapshot page of the host.
  2. Scroll down to the Inventory Details section and click on Notification Profiles tab.
  3. A link is shown if no profiles are associated. Click on the link to view the list of notification profiles already created.
  4. Select the notification profile that you want to associate and click Next.
  5. Select the check box "when any [selected...] Virtual Device has problem". It has two categories. General Alerts - alerts fetched from ESX host and Threshold Alerts raised when a performance metric violates a set threshold value.
  6. Now select the alarms for which you want to be notified and click Next.
  7. Select the time period for which you want to apply this profile and click Next.
  8. Click Save.
The notification profile is successfully associated to the host.
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