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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0
Evaluation Guide
SRM supports the configuration of event-triggered alarms so that you can associate a notification action with
any given SRM alarm event. These alarms are configured via the SRM UI.
SRM supports the following alarm notification actions:
Send a notification email to a specific email address.
Send a notification trap to vCenter trap receivers.
Run a script on the vCenter server.
Refer to the chapter “Customizing Site Recovery Manager” in the Site Recovery Manager Administration Guide
that details how to set up the preceding alarm actions listed.
– this must be initiated manually
SRM is configured to raise vCenter events for the following conditions:
following SRM alarm events listed for the protected and recovery sites. You should be able to trigger these
events in your environment without impacting your production environment. The goal is that you can see
firsthand how SRM responds and notifies you when you are subjected to one of the failure events listed.
Recommended alarms are as follows:
within SRM.
a recovery plan.
of a recovery plan has been sent.
Test your recovery plans
as well as Run your recovery plan, which results in the failover of services from your protected site to your
recovery site, it is recommended that you work through the list of SRM alarm events. These can be accessed via
the AlarmsActions for any additional
SRM alarm event that you deem important for your environment.
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