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Jason_Schmitz's avatar
Jason_Schmitz
7 years ago

VMware Host Network Interface Status

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 sudd...
Patrick_Rouse's avatar
Patrick_Rouse
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2 years ago

We 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.