Events – Part 4 : Who started that VM ?

In a comment on my Events – Part 3 : Auditing VM device changes post, Ian asked if it was possible to report who started a VM.

To take away the suspense, yes that can be done by using the information from two of my earlier post.

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Since I considered it a bit too long to give the solution in a comment, this post.

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Alarm expressions – Part 2 : Event alarms

In the previous part of this series (Alarm expressions – Part 1 : Metric alarms) I showed how you could create alarms that are triggered when a metric crosses a watermark.

zenIn this part I will show you how to create alarms when one or more specific events occur in your vSphere environment. More specifically I will show you how to create an alarm that will fire when someone adds or removes a license from your vCenter.

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Events, Dear Boy, Events – Part 2

In a previous entry (see Events: a great source of information – Part 1) I showed how to use the VmCreatedEvent event to find out which guests were created longer than 30 days ago.

In the vSphere SDK documentation there are currently 432 events listed. That makes it sometimes hard to decide which event(s) to use for your reporting/auditing needs.

But luckily there are some tricks to make it easier on you.

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