Hello all,
I have a need to raise alerts when a vmnic fails but I'm having trouble understanding the logic behind existing vmnic alerting. Below are examples of the logic I have seen but I would greatly appreciate some pointers/direction to solving my problem.
vSS with single vmnic
- vmnic nic failure causes the alarm "Network Connectivity Lost"
vSS with two vmnics
- single vmnic nic failure triggers the alarm "Network uplink redundancy lost"
- two vmnic failures cause the alarm "Network Connectivity Lost"
vSS with three vmnics
- one vmnic nic failure triggers the alarm "Network uplink redundancy degraded"
- two vmnic nic failures triggers the alarm "Network uplink redundancy lost"
- three vmnic failuires triggers the alarm "Network Connectivity Lost"
vSS with four vmnics
- one vmnic nic failure triggers the alarm "Network uplink redundancy degraded"
- two vmnic nic failures triggers no new alarm to be presented
- three vmnic nic failures triggers the alarm "Network uplink redundancy lost"
- four vmnic failuires triggers the alarm "Network Connectivity Lost"
All of this seems normal to me with the exception that I never get an alarm for each individual vmnic failure. To take it a bit further. If I had a vSS with 5 vmnics and two failed that would only be one alarm and if a single vmnic recovered while one is still down the alarm would clear even though there is still a problem! (Network uplink redundancy degraded).
I can go into some tweaking I did with the degraded alarm to present for each vmnic but I guess I would have expected the "Network Connectivity Lost" to actually present for each vmnic failure and not only when all vmnics for a vSS are down.
Please help to clear my confusion and thanks for taking the time to review and respond!
Woody
