A few weeks ago Nicholas Weaver over at http://nickapedia.com/ has released a nice little tool which keeps you informed of who is on your vCenter server, but in the new version 2 which was just released, there’s a massive list of new features including Twitter integration. Now instead of just monitoring sessions on your vCenter server, the VMM will now monitor a large number of changes to multiple objects. Within the UI there is now the ability to turn on or off specific Alert categories. Here is a list of the possible choices:
Sessions
New Session
List Sessions
Terminated Session (New!)
Cluster
Creation
Deletion
Changes (HA, DRS, etc)
Host
Connection/Disconnection
Addition/Removal
Changes (Network, Storage, Maintenance Mode State)
Resource PoolCreation
Deletion
Changes
Virtual Machine
Creation
Deletion
Changes (Device Add/Remove, CPU, Memory)
Distributed Switch
Creation
Deletion
Changes (Uplinks, Port Groups)
Datastores
Renaming
By far Nicholas Weaver’s most favourite feature in the new VMM 2.0 is that you can now use Twitter as a channel for alerting. Besides Twitter, you can also use the notification tray, email or an RSS feed as alert channel.
