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Veeam Management Pack Metric Definitions and VC Events

Veeam Management Pack Metric Definitions and VC Events

KB ID:	1494
Product:	Veeam Management Pack \| 9.0 \| 9a
Published:	2012-01-24
Last Modified:	2025-04-11

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Purpose

This article documents how to create custom alerts for monitoring setting changes within VMware vCenter and verifying the type of data being collected. For this purpose, Veeam provides a list of Veeam MP for VMware Metric Definitions and vCenter Events Definitions.

Solution

Usage Examples

If you want to create an alert for when a VM loses network connectivity, you would use the vCenter Events list:
- VmNetworkFailedEvent
If you want to know the VM CPU usage, you would use the Metrics list:
- cpuUsedPct — for percent
  
  or
- cpuUsageMhz — for MHz

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