Module 9: Resource Monitoring Lesson 4: Using Alarms

Question 1

What is an alarm?

Answer 1

Notifications in response to selected events or conditions that occur with an object in the inventory

Question 2

When creating an alarm, what can you select to monitor an object?

Answer 2

Monitor for specific conditions or state

Monitor for specific events occurring on this object

Question 3

What two triggers can be set for an alarm?

Answer 3

Condition or state triggers

Event triggers

Question 4

What are condition or states?

Answer 4

Power states, connection states and performance metrics for CPU and disk usage for hosts, virtual machines, and datastores

Question 5

What are events?

Answer 5

Occur in response to operations such as when a VM is cloned, created, deleted, deployed and migrated

Question 6

Events do not rely on _____ or ______.

Answer 6

Event triggers to not rely on thresholds or durations.

Question 7

In viewing alarms, what are green circles, yellow triangles and red diamonds mean?

Answer 7

Green is normal, yellow is a warning and red is an alert

Question 8

In the vSphere Client, where can SNMP and SMTP settings be found?

Answer 8

Administration > vCenter Server Settings