vCenter Service overall health changed from 'green' to 'red

[ricky73]

I received this alarm as datacenter target but how can I know more details?

I don't understand what means OR in the alarm definition because there are twice RED status, 1 GREEN status and 1 YELLOW status

ALARM:

Target: Datacenters

Previous Status: Green

New Status: Red

Alarm Definition:

([Event alarm expression: vCenter Service Overall Health Changed; Status = Red] OR

[Event alarm expression: vCenter Service Overall Health Changed; Status = Green] OR

[Event alarm expression: vCenter Service Overall Health Changed; Status = Red] OR

[Event alarm expression: vCenter Service Overall Health Changed; Status = Yellow])

Event details:

vCenter Service overall health changed from 'green' to 'red'

[minor22]

Did you do any upgrades?  Can you provide some screenshots?

[Kahonu84]

Or a VCenter reboot?

[ricky73]

reboot solved but I'd like to understand what happened.

[ricky73]

no upgrade. This alarm is sent by email... screenshot would be the same view of my thread content.

[admin]

check the vws.log and vpxd, They should have more information on why the alarm is getting triggered.

--Avinash

[ricky73]

what can I find these logs, in vSphere client ? What menu please?

[admin]

Hi,

You would not find the logs in the vSphere client, you will find the logs inside the guest os. The below KB should be helpful

VMware KB: Location of vCenter Server log files