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  • 1.  Host battery status good or evil

    Posted Mar 08, 2010 08:38 PM

    Virtual Centre has a default alarm configured that monitors the host battery status. From what I can assertain this monitors the physical servers backup battery status and so when the hardware decides it time to do a refresh (discharge) of the batter we start getting alarms every 5 minutes. Seems that this is hard set with this particular alarm object and there is no way to stop the alerts coming through every 5 minutes without either disableing the alarm or disabling the notificaiton within the alarm.

    Now we could consider disabeling this and fiddle around with other fantastic monitoring tools such as IBM Director or Tivoli, but I am lloking for some advice or what other people are doing with these as find it hard to beleive everyone is just enjoying the email because they where feeling a little lonley when no email was coming in.

    FYI We have just set up a new VIP cluster farm (of which prodution cluster is 4 IBM 3850 M2's). They are running ESXi 4.0. Doubt there is any relavance here but the hosts are all new but the guests where all migrated from an ESX 3.5 cluster.



  • 2.  RE: Host battery status good or evil

    Posted Mar 09, 2010 05:17 AM

    They are supposed to change the logic behind this alarm so that the alarm doesn't react this way in a future release, maybe Update 2 which may come out in the next 3-4 months. So, if you can put up with it for a little longer or live without it for a few months, that might be your best bet.



  • 3.  RE: Host battery status good or evil

    Posted Mar 09, 2010 06:14 PM

    Thanks danm66,

    Suspected this may be the case but was struggling to find the answer. Didn't really feel that everyone just lived with this.

    1RV.



  • 4.  RE: Host battery status good or evil

    Posted Mar 09, 2010 06:15 PM

    indeed... This is a bug and there is a PR open within VMware.



  • 5.  RE: Host battery status good or evil

    Posted May 15, 2012 06:54 PM

    Surprised to see as of ESXi 4.1 U2 This alarm still appears to be evil and gets raised everytime the battery charges itself and worse yet when the chargining completes the "Host Battery Status" alarm does not auto clear. @Cisco We are finding you have to manually select each and every host and go to their Hardware Status tab in order to force a refresh which clears the alarms as long as the BBU is done charging.

    I would be interested in hearing what VMware planned to change the logic behind this alarm and has that been implemented as of ESXi 4.1 U2 ?