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 > Health Reports (VMC on AWS).
  4. To request a default health check execution for all issue types, expand the site-recovery-health-report menu in API categories, select the POST request, and click Execute. 
    POST  /api/vsr-guardrails/{org_id}/deployments/{deployment_id}/site-recovery:check-health
    You can copy or download the response to a local machine, or expand the Operation and check the fields you are interested in.
  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-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.
    You can copy or download the response to a local machine, or expand the Operation and read the report.
  6. To check the Site Recovery health check operation status, expand the operation menu in API categories, select the GET request, and click Execute. 
    POST  /api/vsr-guardrails/{org_id}/operations/{operation_id}
    You can copy or download the response to a local machine, or expand the Operation and check the fields you are interested in.