You use the VMware Cloud API Explorer to request on-demand health check for your VMware Site Recovery SDDC.

VMware Site Recovery guardrails have a daily scanning scheduled for all VMware Site Recovery SDDCs, but if you want to trigger on-demand health check, you can request it by using the VMware Cloud API Explorer.

Procedure

  1. Log in to https://vmc.vmware.com/.
  2. Click your user name at the top right and then switch to the organization that you want to use.
  3. Navigate to Developer Center > API Explorer > VMware Site Recovery.
  4. To request a default health check execution for all issue types, expand the site-recovery-health-html-report menu in API categories, select the POST request, and click Execute.
    POST  /api/vsr-guardrails/{org_id}/deployments/{deployment_id}/site-recovery-health-html-report
  5. (Optional) To request a customized health check execution for certain issue types and information types, you must specify them in the body of the request.
    1. Expand the site-recovery-health-html-report menu in API categories, and select the POST request.
    2. Expand the HealthCheckExecuteRequest entity on the right pane.
    3. To populate the selected_info_types, select the types from the SiteRecoveryInfoType entity on the right pane.
    4. To populate the selected_issue_types, select the types from the SiteRecoveryIssueType entity on the right pane.
      You must select at least one issue type.
    5. Click Execute.
    6. Wait for several minutes for the on-demand health check job to complete.