Track Hyper-V events and check logs for significant messages.

Configuring a threshold:

  • Name. Enter a name for the Hyper-V threshold (used in the Threshold library and the title on the Alert Center Home page).
  • Hyper-V Host. Select a host from the list to gather logs from or select All Hyper-V Hosts.
  • Hyper-V Event Log. Select an event log to fetch from the host(s) or select All Hyper-V Event Logs.
  • Hyper-V Event Log Level. Select a single severity level for log messages to alert on. (Information generates the most messages.)
  • Notification Policy. (Optional) Select the notification policy to apply to this threshold. The policy initiates notifications when an item is outside the configured threshold limits.
  • Threshold Check Interval. Enter a time interval for Alert Center to check the WhatsUp Gold database for items that are out of the threshold limits.

    Automatically resolve items no longer out of threshold. Select this option if you want Alert Center to automatically resolve items when they return to the value within the threshold limit.

Note: Notification policies are optional for most thresholds. If you do not select a notification policy, no notifications are generated for the threshold, but a dashboard report listing the out of threshold items still appears on the Alert Center Home page.

Conditions

  • Alert if an event occurred within the last Threshold Check <Threshold_Check_Interval> minutes. Select this option if you want alerts to occur immediately when an event has occurred within the threshold check period, where <Threshold_Check_Interval> is the value defined in the Threshold Check area of this dialog.
  • Alert when: Select this option if you want to define a number of events and time range for the threshold alert.
    • Number of events <exceeds_or_falls_below> <number>. Use this setting to configure the number of events of the selected event type that must be received before firing the alert.

      —Where <exceeds_or_falls_below> determines if the number should Exceed or Fall Below the threshold value, and <number> is the threshold value.