vCenter Server provides a composite health indicator that enables you to test a single value that represents the health of all system components. This procedure shows how to test the composite health indicator.
The value of the overall system health indicator reflects the strongest trouble indication among the vCenter Server components. If any component has a red indicator, the overall system health indicator is red, else if any component has an orange indicator, the overall system health indicator is orange, and so on.
A gray value for any component indicates that data for the subsystem is unknown. If one or more components have a gray value, but all other subsystems are green, then the overall system health indicator is gray rather than green. However, if any component has a definite trouble indication, the overall system health indicator reflects the strongest trouble indication among the components.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have an active authenticated session with vCenter Server. This procedure assumes that the session ID is present in the security context of a stub configuration.
Procedure
- Create an interface stub or REST path that uses the stub configuration.
- Invoke the health.system method.
- Format and display the resulting value.
