email notification

[risingflight]

Hi everyone i am using Veeam 9. Plz help me cr8 custom alarm and how to set the counters.

I want to get email notification for the below custom alarms

1. If the datastore IOPS reaches 1000 for any datastore for the past 30 minutes.
ie stack by datastore- datastore I/O - time period 30 min

2. If the datatore IOPS reaches 400 for any VM for the past 30 minutes.
ie stack by VM- datastore I/O - time period 30 min

Plz guide me to cr8 alarms

[Shestakov]

Sure, you should click on Alarm Management > Datastore > New...
and then in the wizard under Rules > Add... > Rule for specific condition or state > Resource usage is out of range > Pick counter = Datastore IO, Period = 30 min, warning = 400, error = 1000.
And give it assignment = VI.
Thanks!

[risingflight]

Hi thanks for the support.

1. For Datastore custom alarm i selected Rule Type: Usage, Counter : Datastore I/O ,Condition Above : Warning: 800 Error: 1000 Time Duation 30 minutes.

2. For Virtual Machine custom alarm i selected Rule Type : Usage, Counter : Datastore I/O, Condition Above : Warning 350 Error : 400 Time Period : 30 Minutes.
Here i can see Exclude Instance What does it mean. in Datastore i did not see ?

[Shestakov]

Do you mean exclusion rules under "Assignment" tab? For example, you want to apply the alarm to all VMs running on the cluster except 3 of them. So you Add the cluster into assignment and then add those 3 VMs into exclusion.

[Vitaliy S.]

2. For Virtual Machine custom alarm i selected Rule Type : Usage, Counter : Datastore I/O, Condition Above : Warning 350 Error : 400 Time Period : 30 Minutes.
Here i can see Exclude Instance What does it mean. in Datastore i did not see ?

In this particular case instance means datastore. For example, you want to monitor IOPs for some datastores only which host multiple disks of the same VM.

[risingflight]

Hi i want to create a custom alarm , if datastore IOPS are at constant count of 1000 for a period of 120 seconds. Is it possible

[Shestakov]

Sure, you can modify the same or create a new alarm and set the IOPS threshold=1000 with Time Period = 2 Minutes.

[risingflight]

In 2 minute interval IOPS can cross 1000 or can come under 1000. i dont want to set this alarm.
if my IOPS are above 1000 for 2 minutes interval i should get alert. During this 2 minute interval if IOPS goes above 1000 and come below 1000 which is not i am looking for.
i.e constant above 1000 for 2 minutes

When i set for 30 minutes i get alerts when IOPS reaches above 1000 and also i get email notification issue fixed when it falls below 1000.

[Shestakov]

Actually time period should work just like you described.
Are you sure when you set it =30min, it triggers right away when the performance is above the threshold?
Thanks!

[risingflight]

Yes it triggers right away when the performance is above the threshold.

i want to set alarm such a way that if it is continuously above the threshold for 2 minutes alert must be generated.(Within 2 minutes if it reaches above and come below below the threshold i dont want the alert) Is it possible to set this kind of custom alarm.

[Vitaliy S.]

Yes it triggers right away when the performance is above the threshold.

Can you please let our support engineers take a look at the performance data you have in the database? Alarm should only be triggered with its above the threshold for the defined period of time.