General settings include alarm Name, Description, and Type. You can also enable and disable the alarm in the General settings tab. Specifying the alarm type includes selecting the type of inventory object and the type of activity (events, or conditions and states) that you want to monitor. The options in the Triggers tab change depending on the type of activity you choose to monitor.

Prerequisites

Open the General tab of the Alarm Settings dialog box. See View and Edit Alarm Settings.

Required Privilege: Alarms.Create Alarm or Alarm.Modify Alarm

Procedure
1

Enter a name and description.

2

Select the type of inventory object this alarm will monitor.

3

Select the type of activity this alarm will monitor.

The options in the Triggers tab change depending on the type of activity you select.

4

Click OK to save your changes and exit the dialog box or select a different tab to make further changes to the alarm.

What to do next

Specify alarm triggers. See Specify How a Condition-Based or State-Based Alarm is Triggered in the vSphere Web Client or Specify How the Alarm is Triggered (Event-based).

Note

You cannot save an alarm without triggers defined for it.

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