any_guy Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Hello, first for the officials: How come Horizon still does not have a native configuration option to setup alerts and notifications when desktop pool statuses change or vm's error out? secondly; How do you guys monitor your Horizon Pools? The only workaround I'm aware of, is a less then optimal powershell script. A little rant; This really shouldn't have to be this difficult. We're in 2024, there's toasters and fridges that have the capabilities to setup alerting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominik Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Hello @any_guy I'm not a Omnissa employee but I can answer for for the beginning of the discussion. When Horizon was a part of Vmware they offer vrops for monitoring infrastructure and loginsights. In my company we use combo vrops and zabbix. Of course the best tool for monitoring EUC environment's is ControlUP, but this tool is expensive. I think now Omnissa is Independent company which provides new opportunities for the development of this product. Maybe is good idea to open a feature request for native monitoring on New Tab (aha.io) If you open I will be first who vote your idea 🙂 1 2 Quote Dominik Jakubowski EUC Expert | vExpert ⭐️⭐️⭐️ VDI Ninja https://vdesktop.ninja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wouter Kursten Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 (edited) SInce I am a ControlUp employee I will leave it to others to mention our name any more but if you have any questions please let me know 🙂 Edited August 30 by Wouter Kursten 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virtualCK Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 We already had Splunk so we leveraged it to provide alerts when a Horizon pool status changes. Horizon having its own built in alerts would be great, but if you have other monitoring tools, look into seeing if they are capable of providing the alerts you are looking for. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Heldstab Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Another method that works if you don't have splunk is to have SQL server send an e-mail notification when a Horizon event that matches a specific string shows up. We send e-mails to both our sysadmins as well as our monitoring MS Teams channel. We will be shifting to Splunk very soon but the SQL server notifications work fine. Looks something like this Aug 21 2024 1:54PM ERROR connsvr.fqdn BROKER_PROVISIONING_ Provisioning error occurred for Machine MACHINENAME: Customization operation timed out com.vmware.vdi.deskt 1 POOLNAME 1 1 Quote Matthew Heldstab Enterprise Systems Engineer, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities VMUG Vice President | VMware vExpert x10 EUC Champ/vExpert EUC x8 Blog: vmatt.net TwiX: @mattheldstab LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-heldstab-27387a6/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Strouth Posted September 3 Share Posted September 3 There is also a Horizon Event Monitoring tool that used to be a fling that will monitor the events database as well. I wrote a little bit about it here with the download link https://gstrouth.blogspot.com/2024/01/horizon-event-monitoring.html 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Employee Hussam Rabaya Posted September 5 Employee Share Posted September 5 Yes @Gerard Strouthyou mean this tool " Horizon Event Notifier " which is now in techzone https://techzone.omnissa.com/sites/default/files/associated-content/Horizon_Event_Notifier_1.zip it collects and sends the alerts via email (SMTP) to users that are specified during the configuration process. It allows aggregation of alerts across multiple Horizon View Pods and for near real-time alerting of Horizon 8 a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Strouth Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Awesome! VMware had removed it but looks like Omnissa has it posted again, the GitHub location has the code though if you still want to make any modifications. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoShen Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Very Awesome! I got to see if I can get this Event Notifier working! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Harmsen Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 We have been using Horizon Reach, not sure if that is still available as Fling. Would be nice to have more 'native' alerting and monitoring within the connection servers or in the universal console. Quote Senior Engineer (SDDC, EUC, DBA, Applications) at the Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Strouth Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Very easy to get working, only needs the database connection info. Yeah I agree some native alerting would be nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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