The Hyper-V service module dashboards notify you of potential issues, in the form of alerts and errors.
Viewing Hyper-V Alerts
The Hyper-V dashboards display the number of alerts reported by Barracuda Managed Workplace.
Alerts are triggered according to the monitoring and alerting configuration set in the Hyper-V policy module. Alerts notify you of informational and warning events, such as a virtual machine starting successfully or the Hyper-V Image Management service stopping.
Alerts can be viewed across all sites, at a specific site, and at the host machine level. When you click to view alerts, you can then take several actions:
- view more details about the alert category
- go to the Site Management page or the Device Overview page to investigate
- click to view and optionally change the alert configuration
- create a trouble ticket
- clear or suppress alerts
To view alerts across all sites
- In Service Center, click Status and then click Service Modules.
- Click the Hyper-V link.
- Click the number below the Active Alerts heading.
To view alerts at a specific site
- On the Central Dashboard, click the Hyper-V icon for a site.
Hyper-V icon
- Click the number below the Active Alerts heading.
To view alerts for a host
You can view the alerts triggered by a host device from both the Host Overview dashboard and the Guest Overview dashboard; when viewing the Guest Overview dashboard, the Host Active Alerts number reflects the number of alerts detected on the machine hosting the guest device.
- In Service Center, click Status and then click Service Modules.
- Click the Hyper-V link.
- In the Managed Sites table, click a site name.
- Scroll down to the Managed Hosts table.
- Click a host machine name.
- Click the number below the Host Active Alerts heading.
Viewing Hyper-V Errors
The Hyper-V service module also monitors for Windows critical and error events generated by the Hyper-V Host Manager. The monitors are configured to display errors in the service module dashboards when an issue occurs that might require remediation, such as a Hyper-V launch or clustering failures.
Errors can be viewed at a specific site and at the host machine level.
To view errors at a specific site
- On the Central Dashboard, click the Hyper-V icon for a site.
Hyper-V icon
- Click the number below the Error Events (Last 7 days) heading.
To view errors for a host
You can view the errors discovered on a host device from both the Host Overview dashboard and the Guest Overview dashboard; when viewing the Guest Overview dashboard, the Host Error Events (Last 7 days) number reflects the number of errors detected on the machine hosting the guest device.
- In Service Center, click Status and then click Service Modules.
- Click the Hyper-V link.
- In the Managed Sites table, click a site name.
- Scroll down to the Managed Hosts table.
- Click a host machine name.
- Click the number below the Host Error Events (Last 7 days) heading.