Enabling Vmware Rule Email Notifications for Two Different Vcenters
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Generated by Jive on 2015-01-12-08:00 1 Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Support Questions: Routing email alerts from a specific vCenter to a different (non default) admin group. Posted by Gaston Perez Fuentes Jun 27, 2014 By default, when VMware rules are triggered, a notification will be sent to the email address defined as Global Default for the VMware Admin "VMAdmin" variable. Check KB-120353 for setup instructions. In order to route email notifications to a different email address for VMs residing in an specific vCenter, an additional Registry Value will have to be added for the VMware Virtual Center topology type. These are the steps to set it up. 1. Go to Administration | Rules & Notifications | Manage Registry Variables, search for VMAdmin, click on View and Edit Details. 2. Verify that the global default value is set to the correct email address. 3. Under Registry Values, click Add, then select VMware Virtual Center, click next,
Enabling Vmware Rule Email Notifications for Two Different Vcenters
Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise SupportQuestions: Routing
email alerts from aspecific vCenter to a different (non
default)admin group.
Posted by Gaston Perez Fuentes Jun 27, 2014By default, when
VMware rules are triggered, a notification will be sent to the
email address defined as GlobalDefault for the VMware Admin
"VMAdmin" variable. Check KB-120353 for setup instructions.
In order to route email notifications to a different email
address for VMs residing in an specific vCenter, anadditional
Registry Value will have to be added for the VMware Virtual Center
topology type.
These are the steps to set it up.
1. Go to Administration | Rules & Notifications | Manage
Registry Variables, search for VMAdmin, click on Viewand Edit
Details.2. Verify that the global default value is set to the
correct email address.3. Under Registry Values, click Add, then
select VMware Virtual Center, click next,
Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Support Questions:
Routing email alerts from a specific vCenter to adifferent (non
default) admin group.
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4. Select the vCenter that needs routing the notifications to a
different email address. Click Next.
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Routing email alerts from a specific vCenter to adifferent (non
default) admin group.
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5. Under Static value, enter desired email address. Add more
addresses separated by commas. Click Finish.
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Routing email alerts from a specific vCenter to adifferent (non
default) admin group.
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After clicking Finish, the email alerts will be routed to the
selected email group or email address.
This can be verified in FMS logs:2014-06-27 15:44:00.968 VERBOSE
[Action-4-thread-279]
com.quest.nitro.service.email.EmailSenderService - Email "VMW
Virtual Machine Memory Swapping" has been sent to
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