I'd like to request that the ability to monitor if a vmnic on an ESXi host is up or down, while excluding NIC's that are always down. IE If vmnic4 was up and serving traffic, and then all of a sudden someone unplugged the cable, I want to be able to get an alarm on this. Also, the metric thresholds for Rx & Tx will not work, because sometimes traffic drops to 0 and the link is in a valid state.
Product ManagerWe have a new DataSource that, for a given ESXi host, aims to capture the status of each Virtual Network Interface so you can get alerted if the status changes. If you would be interested in testing this, please DM me and we can set this up in a Zoom meeting.
Thanks
This is what the status the DataSource I’m referring to key off of. So, if it goes from any other value to “Link Down”, it will generate an alert.
Agreed. This would be very helpful.
so, any update on this?
ProfessorThis is not exactly what you want, but it works (we also had unhappy surprises on this). You just have to disable alerting on vmnics expected to be down. And, you will have to wait for LM code review.
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LM Champion@mnagel – Hi Mark, would you be open to publishing that DataSource to the LM Exchange? (It may already be published, but I think the status may be set to "private" because when I attempted to import it into my personal portal I get an error saying "LogicModule belongs to another private repository.")
ProfessorThat has been the case for a long time -- maybe you have a bad locator ID? Should be 2EADXJ. I just checked it and looks like it should be fine, unless it has not been approved. That takes anywhere from a short while to infinite time since there is (AFAIK) no queuing system for security reviews.
Professor1 hour ago, Stuart Weenig said:Still showing private to me, so probably another victim to the "there's no real process for code reviews" problem.
I will setup a git repo for logic modules.
ProfessorPlease see https://github.com/willingminds/logicmodules, which has this one for now and I will see what else I can add there in the near future. As always, be sure to review the code yourself for any module prior to installation.
