Notifications
exports the results of
its root-cause analysis, impact analysis, and performance analysis to the
Global Manager
, where the results are displayed in the form of VMware Smart Assurance
notifications in the Notification Log Console view of the Global Console
. The notifications identify by its domain
name in the Source attribute. Users can double-click a notification to view detailed information about the notification. creates three types of notifications: root-cause
problems, events, and exceptions. Exceptions are also referred to as aggregate events.
- Root-cause notifications indicate points of failure diagnosed by . Each root-cause notification indicates a separate failure.
- Event notifications indicate an abnormal condition detected by . computes these events from status updates gathered from or issued by devices in the managed VoIP network and uses them to determine root-cause failures. An event notification can also indicate an impact event generated by .
- Exception notifications indicate one or more related failures or potential resource/capacity faults associated with a particular type of discovered object. For example, an exception notification is generated for a VoIP cluster when all phones assigned to the cluster are down.Chapter 2, Viewing VoIP Analysis Results and Topology, provides information about viewing the notifications, and Chapter 3, Identifying VoIP Objects and Their Failures, provides descriptions and examples of the types of problems diagnosed by .