Can you still run Update Manager against it in a disconnected state?
From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED I was poking around the support site and ran across a bulletin instructing you to disconnect the host to make a change to a configuration file on it. Checking VC help, it said: Disconnecting a managed host does not remove it from the VirtualCenter inventory. It temporarily suspends all VirtualCenter monitoring activities. The managed host and its associated virtual machines remain in the VirtualCenter inventory. So disconnecting the host from VC will suppress the alerts from being sent. Jeff On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Greg Mulholland <[email protected]> wrote: > i'd encourage you then to log it with vmware. this seems like something they should fix as it will continue to drive people crazy. > > Greg > ________________________________________ > From: Jeff Bunting [[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2009 7:00 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: VMWare alarm question > > I just tried on another host which has never been in production and > still got an alert email when I restarted it in maintenance mode. > > Just found this post: > http://communities.vmware.com/thread/119038 > > so guess this feature doesn't work (we have v2.5 running) > > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Martin Blackstone <[email protected]> wrote: >> What if you put the host into Maintenance Mode? That should stop the alarm. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:09 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: VMWare alarm question >> >> Hoping one of you VMWare gurus can answer this.... >> >> I'm updating the firmware on some of our ESX servers. In virtual >> center, there is an alarm defined at the datacenter level to email an >> alert when a host loses connection to VC. Is there a way to disable >> this alarm when performing maintenance on an individual server? The >> host indicates the alarm is read only except at the top level, and I >> obviously don't want to disable all of the alarms. Creating an alarm >> for each host just to be able to this isn't a very good solution >> either. Is there a better way? >> >> Thanks, >> Jeff >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
