You can monitor the event notifications that VMware Cloud Director Availability generates in VMware Cloud Director by monitoring the VMware Cloud Director Availability events, or by using email delivery for the notifications.

Event Notifications Delivery Channels

For VMware Cloud Director Availability monitoring in the cloud site, the Cloud Service forwards information about significant events by using the following delivery channels:
  • Syslog
    You can use the syslog protocol to forward the events to a preconfigured syslog server, for example vRealize Log Insight. By default, the syslog channel is disabled. The syslog channel is available to providers only. To configure them, see Forward Provider Event Notifications.
  • Cloud Director
    The channel is available to both tenant and provider users. In the VMware Cloud Director portal, as an OrgAdmin user, you can monitor VMware Cloud Director Availability events and also monitor events about user actions for replications owned by the same user. As a SysAdmin user, you can monitor all events, including the events that OrgAdmin users see, with additional event details. By default, the events channel is enabled.
  • Email
    The email channel is available to both tenant and provider users. In VMware Cloud Director portal, as an OrgAdmin user, you can configure an SMTP mail server for the events. VMware Cloud Director Availability uses the email configuration of VMware Cloud Director, so configuring system email settings is required.

    For information about configuring email settings as a provider, see Configure the System Email Settings.

    For information about configuring email settings as a tenant user, see Modify Your Email Settings.

All the delivery channels carry the same notification information, that is formatted according to the delivery method. To receive events notifications, you can use a single channel, all three channels, or not use any of the event notification channels.

Event Types

Based on the generation mechanism, VMware Cloud Director Availability logs the following types of events:
Management events
User actions generate these events, for example, starting a replication, replication operations, policy changes, and others.
VMware Cloud Director Availability supports the following two types of management events:
  • System management events that are only available to providers.
  • Replication management events that are available to both tenant and provider users.
Monitoring events
The system generates these events, for example, periodic checks that are generated when a certain criteria is met.
VMware Cloud Director Availability supports the following two types of monitoring events:
  • System monitoring events that are only available to providers.
  • Replication monitoring events that are available to both tenant and provider users.
Table 1. Monitoring Events
Event Type Log Level Resource ID Description Details
lsConnectivity ERROR N/A Failed to connect to the vCenter Server Lookup service. A stack trace
dbConnectivity ERROR N/A Failed to connect to the database. N/A
ntpConnectivity ERROR N/A Time is not synchronized with the NTP servers. The NTP servers
managerConnectivity ERROR Manager Service ID Failed to connect to the Manager Service. Stack trace
vcdConnectivity ERROR N/A Failed to connect to VMware Cloud Director. A stack trace
tunnelConnectivity ERROR N/A Failed to connect to the local Tunnel Service. A stack trace
offlineRemoteSites WARN N/A There are offline paired sites. The site names
offlineLocalReplicators WARN N/A There are offline local Replicator Service instances. Replicator Service IDs
certExpiration WARN N/A The certificate of the appliance expires in number days. N/A
adminRemoteAccess WARN N/A The administrative access is allowed from anywhere. N/A
sshEnabled WARN N/A The SSH access is enabled. N/A
licenseExpired WARN N/A The license is expired. N/A
replicationErrors WARN N/A There are number replications with errors. The replications IDs
rpoViolations WARN N/A There are number replications with an RPO violation more than number minutes. The replications IDs
Table 2. Management Events
Event Type Log Level Resource ID Description Details
start INFO Replication ID The replication of the vm-name virtual machine started.

If the replication is a migration, what is the replication direction: cloud to cloud, cloud to on-premises, or on-premises to cloud, and warning messages
start ERROR N/A The replication of the vm-name virtual machine failed to start.

If the replication is a migration, what is the replication direction: cloud to cloud, cloud to on-premises, or on-premises to cloud, and a stack trace
stop INFO Replication ID The replication of the vm-name virtual machine stopped. Warning messages
sync INFO Replication ID A replication instance is created for the replicated vm-name virtual machine. The latest instance ID
sync ERROR Replication ID Failed to create a replication instance for the replicated vm-name virtual machine. A stack trace
failover INFO Replication ID The replicated vm-name virtual machine failed over.

Recovery information and warning messages
failover ERROR Replication ID The failover failed for the replicated vm-name virtual machine. A stack trace
migrate INFO Replication ID The replicated vm-name virtual machine is migrated.

Recovery information and warning messages
migrate ERROR Replication ID The migration failed for the replicated vm-name virtual machine. A stack trace
failoverTest INFO Replication ID The test image is created for the replicated vm-name virtual machine.

Recovery information and warning messages
failoverTest ERROR Replication ID The test image creation failed for the replicated vm-name virtual machine. A stack trace
failoverTestCleanup INFO Replication ID The cleanup of the test image is successful for the replicated vm-name virtual machine. Warning messages
failoverTestCleanup ERROR Replication ID The cleanup of the test image failed for the replicated vm-name virtual machine. A stack trace
pause INFO Replication ID The replication synchronization is paused for the replicated vm-name virtual machine. N/A
pause ERROR Replication ID Failed to pause the replication synchronization for the replicated vm-name virtual machine. A stack trace
resume INFO Replication ID The replication synchronization is resumed for the replicated vm-name virtual machine. N/A
resume ERROR Replication ID Failed to resume the replication synchronization for the replicated vm-name virtual machine. A stack trace
reverse INFO Replication ID The replication is reversed for the replicated vm-name virtual machine.

Warning messages and the reversed replication ID
reverse ERROR Replication ID Failed to reverse the replication the replicated vm-name virtual machine. A stack trace
reconfigure INFO Replication ID The replication configuration is changed for the replicated vm-name virtual machine.

The new configuration and warning messages
reconfigure ERROR Replication ID Failed to change the replication configuration for the replicated vm-name virtual machine. A stack trace
reconfigureDisks INFO Replication ID The replicated disks changed for the replicated vm-name virtual machine.

The replicated disks and warning messages
reconfigureDisks ERROR Replication ID Failed to change the replicated disks for the replicated vm-name virtual machine. A stack trace
pair INFO Site name Paired to the site-name remote site. Warning messages
pair ERROR Site name Failed to pair to the site-name remote site. A stack trace
repair INFO Site name Updated the pairing to the site-name remote site. Warning messages
repair ERROR Site name Failed to update the pairing to the site-name remote site. A stack trace
unpair INFO Site name Broke the pairing with the site-name remote site. Warning messages
unpair ERROR Site name Failed to break the pairing with the site-name remote site. A stack trace
policyChange INFO Replication Policy ID The replication policy is changed. The new policy