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VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat log entries which may appear in the Application Event Logs
Purpose
This provides information about entries that may appear in the Application Event Log.
Resolution
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Event Name |
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Example |
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Apply Disk Full Event |
Warning |
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Yellow Alert: Failed to update the Passive because the disk/Quota is full. This happened at Mon Feb 27 13:25:16 GMT 2006 on the PrimarySrvA server while Passive. Further information if available: [N27]Failed to write information. See vCSHB-Ref-248 or VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat out of Disk Behavior (1008138). |
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Apply Sharing Violation Event |
Warning |
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Yellow Alert: Sharing violation on an object that was in use by another application. This happened at Wed Aug 02 23:11:36 BST 2006 on the Secondary SvrB while Passive. Further information if available: [N29]The passive VMware vCenter server attempted to access the file: E:\\DB\\TRAIN\\xz8. This failed because the file was in use by another application. Please ensure that there are no applications which access protected files running on the passive. |
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Controller Auto Switchover Event |
Warning |
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Yellow Alert: Auto Switchover Started. This happened at Wed May 31 01:37:15 GMT+08:00 2006 on the PrimarySrvA server while Active. Further information if available: Auto switchover started because server lost connection to public network.. The protected application will be started on the new active server; but replication will be stopped. You must check the status of the protected application and its data before starting replication. When you start replication a full system check will be performed. |
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Controller Failover Done Event |
Warning |
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Yellow Alert: Failover complete. This happened at Mon Oct 30 15:27:15 GMT 2006 on the SecondarySrvB server while Active. For information regarding how to recover from a failover, see vCSHB-Ref-820 or Recovering from a failover (1008465). |
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Heartbeat Missed Event |
Warning |
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Yellow Alert: Heartbeat missed. This happened at Tue May 30 22:49:45 BST 2006 on the SecondarySvrBserver while Passive. |
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Heartbeat Stopped Event |
Warning |
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Yellow Alert: Heartbeat stopped. This happened at Wed May 31 12:32:57 BST 2006 on the SecondarySvrB server while Passive. Further information if available: |
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NF Channel Disconnected Event |
Warning |
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Yellow Alert: A VMware Channel has disconnected. This happened at Sat Jan 20 11:26:09 EST 2007 on the PrimarySvrA server while Active. If you regularly get this message please see vCSHB-Ref-992 or Troubleshooting a VMware Heartbeat Channel that drops (1008551). |
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NF Channel Handshake Failed Event |
Warning |
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Yellow Alert: Failed to establish the VMware Channel. This happened at Sun Jan 21 14:31:18 CST 2007 on the SecondarySvrB server while Active. Further information if available: If you regularly get this error, see vCSHB-Ref-991 or Troubleshooting VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Synchronization failures (1008572). |
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NF Channel Exceeded Max Disk Usage Event |
Warning |
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Red Alert: Exceeded max disk space for queued file/registry update data. This happened at Sun Dec 24 06:58:37 GMT 2006 on the SecondarySvrB server while Passive. Further information if available: VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat has filled its quota with log files. Consider increasing the Max Disk Usage setting. |
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Split Brain Avoidance Event |
Warning |
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat R2: Operation Failover failed because The channel connection has been lost; but the Active Server is still visible via the public network. Automatic failover has been prevented in order to avoid a split-brain (i.e. both servers active). For more information, see vCSHB-Ref-240 or When Active Server fails, under certain situations, split-brain detections may prevent failover (1008137)and vCSHB-Ref-838 or Configuring Network Monitoring and Viewing the Network Status (1008467). |
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Shutdown Event |
Information |
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat R2: VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat V5.5 (nnn) Has Shutdown Normally |
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Status Time Out Event |
Warning |
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Red Alert: Timeout in application starting/stopping. This happened at Thu Jan 04 13:46:48 GMT 2007 on the SecondarySvrB server while Active. Further information if available: An application did not achieve its target status The application is :SQL ServerThe unachieved target status is : Executing Possible causes : - The application script or its timeout values may be set incorrectly: - Check the Application Configuration panel in the VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Console. - The script may not be issuing the relevant status commands: eg. <echo NFCMD doApplicationExecuting appName> eg. <echo NFCMD doApplicationStopped appName> - The script may be running a command which is hanging: - If this happens when trying to stop an application; you should REBOOT your system. If a protected service refuses to stop; it will prevent data replication; so the system should not be used as a Passive server without REBOOTING. |
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An attribute failed its check (NF Monitor) |
Warning |
An attribute inbound Connections Current; Instance: Win32_PerfRawData_SMTPSVC_SMTPServer. Name="_Total" failed its check. |
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Alertable Unsupported Feature User Event |
Warning |
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Yellow Alert: Unprotected Feature Detected. This happened at Mon Apr 02 02:12:32 PDT 2007 on the Primary wasabi2 server while Active. Further information if available: Automated Out Of Synch Applied : Use ofunsupported featureshas been detected for the file / directory : D:\\Data\\ UNSUPPORTED2327518074\\As a result of this; the file / directoryis marked as Out Of Synch. |
Additional Information
vCSHB-Ref-1193
vCSHB-Ref-248
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