Administration

Events
Provides links to the Events screen filtered for error events and for warning
events.
System Health
Provides links to the Dashboard screen, which displays summaries of the
status of View components, vSphere components, domains, desktops, and
datastore usage.
The system health dashboard displays a numbered link against each item. This value indicates the number
of items that the linked report provides details about.
Monitor Events in View
The event database stores information about events that occur in the View Connection Server host or group,
View Agents, and the View Administrator, and notifies you of the number of events on the dashboard. You
can examine the events in detail on the Events screen.
NOTE Events are listed in the View Administrator interface for a limited time period. After this time, the
events are only available in the historical database tables. You can use Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle
database reporting tools to examine events in the database tables. For more information, see the View
Integration document.
In addition to monitoring events in View Administrator, you can generate View events in Syslog format so
that the event data can be accessible to analytics software. See “Generating View Event Log Messages in
Syslog Format Using the -I Option,” on page 221 and "Configure Event Logging for Syslog Servers" in the
View Installation document.
Prerequisites
Create and configure the event database as described in the View Installation document.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select Monitoring > Events.
2 (Optional) In the Events window, you can select the time range of the events, apply filtering to the
events, and sort the listed events by one or more of the columns.
View Event Messages
View reports events whenever the state of the system changes or it encounters a problem. You can use the
information in the event messages to take the appropriate action.
Table 12-1 shows the types of events that View reports.
Table 12‑1. Types of Event Reported by View
Event Type Description
Audit Failure or
Audit Success
Reports the failure or success of a change that an administrator or user makes to the operation or
configuration of View.
Error Reports a failed operation by View.
Information Reports normal operations within View.
Warning Reports minor problems with operations or configuration settings that might lead to more
serious problems over time.
You might need to take some action if you see messages that are associated with Audit Failure, Error, or
Warning events. You do not need to take any action for Audit Success or Information events.
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