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The following approach is generally recommended for monitoring the health of your vCenter servers:

• Install an agent on the vCenter server to monitor its overall performance and system health.
• Use the Windows Service Check monitor to verify that the following services are running:
  • VMware Infrastructure Web Access;
  • VMware License Server (if it is running on the target vC install);

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  • VMware VirtualCenter Server.

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• Use the HTTP monitor to ensure that the /ui/ page is responding to web requests on the vCenter Server.

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• Monitor the following on the vCenter MSSQL/Oracle DB server:

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  • • tablespace capacity;

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  • • connectivity using the basic monitor for the appropriate DB type;

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  • • system application event logs for error level events.

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  • Monitor the file system capacity of the volumes hosting the vCenter application and database files.

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  • Monitor the application event log of the vCenter server, specifically searching for Error events within the VMware VirtualCenter Server source.