Users Guide

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3 Select Alert Actions and make sure that any events to be monitored have
the
Broadcast Message option set, so that the events will be sent out.
4 Select the Platform Events option at the top of the tab.
5 Click the grey Configure Destinations button, and click the Destination1
link.
6 Select the Enable Destination check box.
7 Enter the plug-in appliance IP address in the Destination IP Address field.
8 Click Apply Changes .
9 Repeat step 1 to step 8 to configure additional events.
View Events
To view events, either navigate to the vCenter Tasks&Events tab and select
the Events view so that the selected level of events is displayed, or click on the
parent node (cluster or datacenter) of the host or the root folder of the
vCenter. Events will appear only on those nodes in the vSphere tree.
Inventory
Datacenter and host system inventory allows an administrator to view the
current hardware configuration and status information for an individual or
group of host systems. The information displayed includes:
• Asset information
• Server inventory
• Networking
• Overall global health
• Storage inventory
• Firmware inventory
An inventory of all host systems must be collected to display this information.
To perform an inventory on host systems, a connection profile that provides
communication and authentication information must be created. Once the
inventory is complete, the inventory results can be viewed for the entire
datacenter or for an individual host system.
To perform host system inventory: