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title: "Creating Ops Mgr Monitors for Custom vCenter Server Alarms"
description: "You may encounter a situation where you have a custom alarm configured in your vCenter Server and you want to capture its states in the OpsMgr console."
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breadcrumb: "Veeam MP for VMware User Guides > Appendices > Creating Ops Mgr Monitors for Custom vCenter Server Alarms"
dateModified: "2026-09-18"
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# Creating OpsMgr Monitors for Custom vCenter Server Alarms

You may encounter a situation where you have a custom alarm configured in your vCenter Server and you want to capture its states in the OpsMgr console. In this case you will need to create an OpsMgr unit monitor that will use Veeam MP event logs for collecting necessary events. You can then track alerts generated by the monitor in object-related Veeam MP alert views.

The example below describes how to create a monitor that tracks health states for all Host objects in your virtual infrastructure and generates alerts when the states change:

1. In the OpsMgr console, switch to the **Authoring** pane and navigate to **Management Pack Objects> Monitors > Create a Monitor > Unit Monitor**. 
2. At the **Monitor Type** page, choose *Windows Events\\ Simple Event Detection\\ Windows Event Reset*. 

   From the **Management pack** list, select a destination management pack for the newly created monitor.

   [![Select the Monitor Type](images/monitor_type.png "Select the Monitor Type")](images/monitor_type.png){.toggle scale=65}

3. At the **General** page, in the **Name** field, enter a name for the monitor.

   1. If you want Veeam MP views to capture alerts generated by the monitor, make sure that the monitor and alert names start with “*Veeam VMware:*”. 

      To make host-related views capture alerts generated by the monitor, the name must start with “*Veeam VMware: Host*”.

   2. In the **Description** field, provide description for the monitor. Note that it will not be displayed in the alert text.
   3. Click **Select** next to the **Monitor target** field. In the **Select Items to Target** window, select **View all targets** and choose *VMware vSphere Host* as a target for the monitor. 
   4. From the **Parent monitor** list, select *Availability*.
   5. If you want to configure overrides for the monitor, you can clear the **Monitor is enabled** check box and select it later. Otherwise, make sure the check box is selected.

   ::: note

   For other infrastructure objects, use a similar approach. For example, if you want to generate alerts for the vCenter Server objects, select *VMware vCenter* as a target for the monitor; if you want to generate alerts for the Cluster objects, select *VMware Cluster*.

   :::

   [![Select Items to Target](images/select_items_to_target.png "Select Items to Target")](images/select_items_to_target.png){.toggle scale=65}

4. At the **Event Log (Unhealthy Event)** page, choose the event log from which the monitor will read events triggered when the alarm enters an unhealthy state.

   1. Click the button next to the **Log name** field. 
   2. From the **Available event logs** list, select *Veeam VMware*. If this log does not appear in the list, you may need to connect to the VMware Collector.

   [![Select Event Log](images/select_event_log_unhealthy.png "Select Event Log")](images/select_event_log_unhealthy.png){.toggle scale=65}

5. At the **Event Expression (Unhealthy Event)** page, change default event properties. 

   In this example, change the properties as follows:

   1. Click the button next to the first line in the **Parameter Name** column. In the **Select an Event Property** window, select **Specify event specific parameter to use** and type *1*.

      From the **Operator** list, select *Equals*.

      In the **Value** field, type *AlarmStatusChangedEvent*.

   2. Click the button next to the second line in the **Parameter Name** column. In the **Select an Event Property** window, select **Specify event specific parameter to use** and type *5*.

      From the **Operator** list, select *Equals*.

      In the **Value** field, select the *id* property.

      [![Specify Event Expression](images/change_properties_parameter5.png "Specify Event Expression")](images/change_properties_parameter5.png){.toggle scale=65}

   3. Click **Insert**. Click the button next to the third line in the **Parameter Name** column. In the **Select an Event Property** window, select **Specify event specific parameter to use** and type *11*.

      From the **Operator** list, select *Matches wildcard*.

      In the **Value** field, type *Alarm\*NAME_OF_THE_ALARM\*to red\**, where:

      - *NAME_OF_THE ALARM* must be changed to the name of the alarm you want to capture.

      - *Red* (Critical state) can be changed to *yellow* in case you want to track the Warning state.

   [![Specify Event Expression](images/change_properties_parameter11.png "Specify Event Expression")](images/change_properties_parameter11.png){.toggle scale=65}

   ::: note

   If you want to create a monitor with the vCenter Server target, you must add *Parameter 6* and assign the *Display Name (object)* value to it.

   If you want to create a monitor with the Cluster target, you must add *Parameter 4* and assign the *Display Name (object)* value to it.

   If you want to create a monitor with the Datacenter target, you must add *Parameter 3* and assign the *Display Name (object)* value to it.

   If you want to create a monitor with the Virtual Machine target, you must add *Parameter 8* and assign the *Id* value to it.

   :::

6. At the **Event Log (Healthy Event)** page, choose the event log from which the monitor will read events triggered when the alarm enters the healthy state.

   1. Click the button next to the **Log name** field. 
   2. From the **Available event logs** list, select *Veeam VMware*.

   [![Select Event Log](images/select_event_log_healthy.png "Select Event Log")](images/select_event_log_healthy.png){.toggle scale=65}

7. At the **Event Expression (Healthy Event)** page, repeat the procedure described at step 5, but at this time the *Parameter 11* value must be *Alarm\*NAME_OF_THE_ALARM\*to green\** to track the Healthy state.

   [![Specify Event Expression](images/change_properties_parameter11_healthy.png "Specify Event Expression")](images/change_properties_parameter11_healthy.png){.toggle scale=65}

8. At the **Configure Health** page, select health states that the monitor will change when one of the conditions specified above is met.

   [![Configure Monitor Health States](images/configure_health.png "Configure Monitor Health States")](images/configure_health.png){.toggle scale=65}

9. At the **Configure Alerts** page:

   1. Select the **Generate alerts for this monitor** check box.
   2. From the **Generate an alert when** drop-down list, select *The monitor is in a critical health state*.
   3. Make sure that the **Automatically resolve the alert when the monitor returns to a healthy state** check box is selected.
   4. Choose alert priority and severity.
   5. Enter a dynamically populated description for the AlarmStatusChangedEvent specified at step 5. 

      Click the button next to the **Alert description** field. In the **Alert Description** window, specify the following value: *$Data/Context/Params/Param[11]$*

   [![Alert Description](images/alert_description.png "Alert Description")](images/alert_description.png){.toggle scale=65}

10. Click **Create** to create the monitor.