HP OneView for VMware vCenter User Guide (7.4)

6 Viewing hardware alert notifications
This chapter describes the HP OneView for vCenter hardware alert events and alarms.
HP OneView for vCenter events
HP OneView for vCenter loads events from Onboard Administrator, HP SNMP agents, and HP
CIM providers into vCenter Server, enabling administrators to view and manage them from the
vSphere Client. This provides administrators with a single, heterogeneous view of all host system
events within the managed environment.
To view HP hardware tasks and events, navigate to the Tasks & Events tab in the vSphere Client,
or the Events tab in the vSphere Web Client. See Figure 19 (page 115).
Figure 19 Tasks & Events tab (events view)
Onboard Administrator events
HP OneView for vCenter registers with the Onboard Administrator to receive supported events as
they occur. These events fit into defined vCenter Server categories.
vCenter Server event categoryEvent descriptionEvent type
InfoOK, OtherOperational status event
WarningUnknown, DegradedOperational status event
ErrorNon-recoverable error, Predictive
failure, Error
Operational status event
InfoInserted, Removed, Power
management, Power state, iLO alive
Hardware event
WarningiLO dead, Interconnect resetHardware event
ErrorBlade faultHardware event
InfoOK, OtherSubsystem event
WarningUnknown, DegradedSubsystem event
ErrorNon-recoverable error, Predictive
failure, Error
Subsystem event
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