Change Auditor for VMWare 7.1.1 - Event Reference Guide

Introduction Change Auditor for VMware Events Built-in Reports

VMware Upgrade

Table 19. VMware Upgrade events
Event	Description	Severity
Error Upgrade Event	Created when a general error event from an upgrade is detected.	Medium
Info Upgrade Event	Created when a general information event from an upgrade is detected.	Medium
Upgrade Event	Created when an upgrade from VirtualCenter 1.x event is detected. (Disabled by default)	Medium
User Upgrade Event	Created when a general user event from an upgrade is detected.	Medium
Warning Upgrade Event	Created when a general warning event from an upgrade is detected.	Medium

VMware Virtual Machine

Table 20. VMware Virtual Machine events
Event	Description	Severity
Customization Event	Created when a customization event occurs. (Disabled by default)	Medium
Customization Failed	Created when the customization sequence failed. (Disabled by default)	Medium
Customization Linux Identity Failed	Created when there is a failure to set Linux® identity. (Disabled by default)	Medium
Customization Network Setup Failed	Created when the network setup failed in the VM guest during customization. (Disabled by default)	Medium
Customization Started	Created when the customization sequence has started in the VM guest. (Disabled by default)	Medium
Customization Succeeded	Created when the customization sequence completed successfully in the VM guest. (Disabled by default)	Medium
Customization Sysprep Failed	Created when the Sysprep failed to run in the VM guest during customization. (Disabled by default)	Medium
Customization Unknown Failure	Created when the customization sequence failed unexpectedly in the VM guest. (Disabled by default)	Medium
Drs Rule Compliance Event	Created when a virtual machine comes into compliance with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) rules.	Medium
Drs Rule Violation Event	Created when a virtual machine violates a DRS rule.	Medium
Drs VM Migrated	Created when a virtual machine migration that is recommended by DRS is detected.	Medium
Drs VM Powered On	Created when a virtual machine is powered on by DRS.	Medium
General Vm Error Event	Created when a general error event for a virtual machine is detected. (Disabled by default)	Medium
General Vm Info Event	Created when a general information event for a virtual machine is detected. (Disabled by default)	Medium
General Vm Warning Event	Created when a general warning event for a virtual machine is detected. (Disabled by default)	Medium
Migration Error Event	Created when a migration error is detected.	Medium
Migration Event	Created when a migration warning or error event is detected.	Medium
Migration Host Error Event	Created when a migration error that includes the destination host is detected.	Medium
Migration Host Warning Event	Created when a migration warning that includes the destination host is detected.	Medium
Migration Resource Error Event	Created when a migration error that includes both the destination host and resource pool is detected.	Medium
Migration Resource Warning Event	Created when a migration warning that includes both the destination host and resource pool is detected.	Medium
Migration Warning Event	Created when a migration warning is detected.	Medium
No Maintenance Mode Drs Recommendation for VM	Created when DRS did not recommend a migration for a powered on virtual machine, even though its host is going into maintenance mode.	Medium
Not Enough Resources to Start VM Event	Created when the HA does not find sufficient resources to failover a virtual machine.	High
Vm Acquired Mks Ticket	Created when a user successfully acquires an MKS ticket.	Medium
Vm Acquired Ticket	Created when a user successfully acquires a ticket.	Medium
Vm Auto Rename Event	Created when a virtual machine is automatically renamed because of a name conflict.	High
Vm Being Cloned	Created when a virtual machine is in the process of being cloned.	Medium
Vm Being Cloned No Folder	Created when a virtual machine is in the process of being cloned without specifying a destination folder.	Medium
Vm Being Created	Created when a virtual machine is in the process of being created.	Medium
Vm Being Deployed	Created when a virtual machine is in the process of being deployed from a template.	Medium
Vm Being Hot Migrated	Created when a virtual machine is in the process of being hot-migrated.	Medium
Vm Being Migrated	Created when a virtual machine is in the process of being migrated.	Medium
Vm Being Relocated	Created when a virtual machine is in the process of being relocated.	Medium
Vm Clone Event	Created when a clone operation is detected.	Medium
Vm Clone Failed	Created when there is a failure to clone a virtual machine.	High
Vm Cloned	Created when a virtual machine cloning operation is completed.	Medium
Vm Config Missing Event	Created when the configuration file cannot be found.	Medium
Vm Connected	Created when a virtual machine is successfully connected.	Medium
Vm Created	Created when a virtual machine is successfully created.	Medium
Vm Das Being Reset Event	Created when a virtual machine is in the process of being reset by HA VM Health Monitoring on hosts that do not support the create screenshot api or if the create screenshot api fails.	Medium
Vm Das Being Reset with Screenshot Event	Created when a virtual machine is in the process of being reset by HA VM Health Monitoring on hosts that support the create screenshot api.	Medium
Vm Das Reset Failed	Created when HA VM Health Monitoring fails to reset a virtual machine after failure.	Medium
Vm Das Update Error Event	Created when an error occurs when updating the HA agents with the current state of the virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Das Update Ok Event	Created when the HA agents have been updated with the current state of the virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Date Rolled Back	Created when the VirtualCenter server date is rolled back.	Medium
Vm Deploy Failed	Created when a virtual machine deployment operation fails to complete.	High
Vm Deployed	Created when a virtual machine deployment operation successfully completes.	Medium
Vm Disconnected	Created when a virtual machine is disconnected.	Medium
Vm Discovered	Created when a virtual machine is discovered.	Medium
Vm Disk Failed	Created when there is a failure to create a virtual disk in a virtual machine.	High
Vm Emigrating Event	Created when a virtual machine is emigrated.	Medium
Vm End Recording Event	Created when a recording session on a virtual machine ends.	Medium
Vm End Replaying Event	Created when a replay session on a virtual machine ends.	Medium
Vm Event	Created when a virtual machine event is detected.	Medium
Vm Failed Migrate	Created when there is a failure to migrate a virtual machine.	High
Vm Failed Relayout	Created when there is a specific failure to relay out a virtual machine, such as a failure to access the disk.	High
Vm Failed Relayout On Vmfs2 Datastore	Created when there is a failure to relay out a virtual machine when the virtual machine still has disks on a VMFS2 volume.	High
Vm Failed Starting Secondary	Created when there is a VMotion failure when attempting to start a secondary virtual machine.	High
Vm Failed To Power Off	Created when there is a failure to power off a virtual machine.	High
Vm Failed To Power On	Created when there is a failure to power on a virtual machine.	High
Vm Failed To Reboot Guest	Created when there is a failure to reboot the guest on a virtual machine.	High
Vm Failed To Reset	Created when there is a failure to reset a virtual machine.	High
Vm Failed To Shutdown Guest	Created when there is a failure to shut down the guest on a virtual machine.	High
Vm Failed To Standby Guest	Created when there is a failure to set the guest on a virtual machine to a standby state.	High
Vm Failed To Suspend	Created when there is a failure to suspend a virtual machine.	High
Vm Failed Updating Secondary Config	Created when the new primary fails to update the config of the secondary virtual machine, after a failover.	High
Vm Failover Failed	Created when a virtual machine failover is unsuccessful.	High
Vm Fault Tolerance State Changed	Created when there is a fault tolerance state change.	Medium
Vm Fault Tolerance Turned Off	Created when all secondary virtual machines have been removed and fault tolerance protection is turned off for a virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Fault Tolerance Vm Terminated	Created when a secondary or primary virtual machine is terminated. The reason could be: divergence, lost connection to secondary, partial hardware failure of secondary, or by user.	High
Vm Guest Reboot Event	Created when a virtual machine guest reboot request event is detected.	High
Vm Guest Shutdown Event	Created when a virtual machine guest shutdown request event is detected.	Medium
Vm Guest Standby Event	Created when a virtual machine guest standby request event is detected.	Medium
Vm Instance Uuid Assigned	Created when a new instance UUID is assigned to a virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Instance Uuid Changed	Created when a virtual machine’s instance UUID is changed.	Medium
Vm Instance Uuid Conflict Event	Created when there is a conflict between virtual machine instance UUIDs.	High
Vm Mac Assigned	Created when a new MAC address is assigned to a virtual network adapter.	Medium
Vm Mac Changed	Created when a virtual machine’s MAC address is changed.	Medium
Vm Mac Conflict Event	Created when there is a MAC address conflict for a virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Max FTRestart Count Reached	Created when FT virtual machine reaches the max restart count.	Medium
Vm Max Restart Count Reached	Created when the virtual machine reaches the max restart count.	Medium
Vm Message Error Event	Created when an error message (consisting of a collection of observations) is thrown by the virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Message Event	Created when a message is thrown by the virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Message Warning Event	Created when a warning message (consisting of a collection of observations) is thrown by the virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Migrated	Created when a virtual machine is migrated.	Medium
Vm No Compatible Host For Secondary Event	Created when no compatible host is found to place a secondary virtual machine.	Medium
Vm No Network Access Event	Created when there is a migration failure when the destination host is not on the same network as the source host.	Medium
Vm Orphaned	Created when there is a virtual machine for which no host is responsible.	Medium
Vm Power Off On Isolation Event	Created when a virtual machine has been powered off on an isolated host in a HA database.	Medium
Vm Powered Off	Created when a virtual machine is finished powering off.	Medium
Vm Powered On	Created when a virtual machine is finished powering on.	Medium
Vm Powering On With Customized DVPort	Created when a virtual machine is powering on using DVPorts with port level configuration, which might be different from the DVportgroup.	Medium
Vm Primary Failover Event	Created when there is a fault tolerance failover. The reason could be: lost connection to primary, partial hardware failure of primary, or by user.	Medium
Vm Reconfigured	Created when a virtual machine is reconfigured.	Medium
Vm Registered	Created when a virtual machine is successfully registered.	Medium
Vm Relayout Successful Event	Created when a virtual machine is successfully converted to the new virtual machine format on a VMFS3 volume.	Medium
Vm Relayout Up To Date Event	Created when a virtual machine is already in the correct format. No relay out is necessary.	Medium
Vm Reload From Path Event	Created when a virtual machine is successfully reloaded from a new configuration path.	Medium
Vm Reload From Path Failed	Created when a virtual machine fails to reload from a new configuration path.	Medium
Vm Relocate Failed	Created when there is a failure to relocate a virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Relocate Spec Event	Created when a relocate or clone event is detected.	Medium
Vm Relocated	Created when a virtual machine is successfully relocated.	Medium
Vm Remote Console Connected	Created when a remote console is connected to the virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Remote Console Disconnected	Created when a remote console is disconnected from the virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Removed	Created when a virtual machine is removed from VirtualCenter management.	Medium
Vm Renamed	Created when a virtual machine is renamed.	Medium
Vm Resetting Event	Created when a virtual machine is reset.	Medium
Vm Resource Pool Moved	Created when a virtual machine is moved from one resource pool to another.	Medium
Vm Resource Reallocated	Created when a virtual machine’s resource allocation is changed.	Medium
Vm Restarted On Alternate Host	Created when a virtual machine is restarted on a different host, since its original host failed.	Medium
Vm Resuming Event	Created when a virtual machine is resuming, after being suspended.	Medium
Vm Secondary Added	Created when a secondary virtual machine is added.	Medium
Vm Secondary Disabled	Created when a secondary virtual machine is disabled.	Medium
Vm Secondary Disabled By System	Created when a fault tolerance secondary virtual machine is disabled by vCenter because the virtual machine could not be powered on.	Medium
Vm Secondary Enabled	Created when a secondary virtual machine is enabled.	Medium
Vm Secondary Started	Created when a secondary virtual machine is successfully started.	Medium
Vm Shutdown On Isolation Event	Created when a virtual machine has been shut down on an isolated host in a HA cluster.	High
Vm Start Recording Event	Created when a recording session on a virtual machine is started.	Medium
Vm Start Replaying Event	Created when a replay session on a virtual machine is started.	Medium
Vm Starting Event	Created when a virtual machine is powering on.	Medium
Vm Starting Secondary Event	Created when there is a VMotion to start a secondary virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Static Mac Conflict Event	Created when there is a static MAC address conflict for a virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Stopping Event	Created when a virtual machine is stopping.	Medium
Vm Suspended	Created when a virtual machine is finished suspending.	Medium
Vm Suspending Event	Created when a virtual machine is suspending.	Medium
Vm Timedout Starting Secondary Event	Created when there is a timeout when attempting to start a secondary virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Unsupported Starting	Created when an unsupported guest is powering on.	Medium
Vm Upgrade Complete Event	Created when an upgrade operation is successfully completed.	Medium
Vm Upgrade Failed	Created when there is a failure to upgrade the virtual hardware on a virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Upgrading Event	Created when a virtual machine is in the process of having its hardware upgraded.	Medium
Vm Uuid Assigned	Created when a new BIOS UUID is assigned to a virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Uuid Changed	Created when a virtual machines’ BIOS UUID is changed.	Medium
Vm Uuid Conflict Event	Created when there is a conflict of virtual machine BIOS UUIDs.	High
Vm Wwn Assigned	Created when a new WWN (World Wide Name) is assigned to a virtual machine.	Medium
Vm Wwn Changed	Created when a virtual machine’s WWN (World Wide Name) is changed.	Medium
Vm Wwn Conflict Event	Created when there is a conflict of virtual machine WWNs (World Wide Names).	High

Built-in Reports

Change Auditor provides predefined reports which allow you to quickly retrieve valuable change information from a variety of perspectives.


	NOTE: The terms ‘searches’ and ‘reports’ are used in conjunction to acquire the desired output. You run a ‘search’ and the results returned are referred to as a ‘report’.