Summary: How to configure alarms in VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1.
Date: Around 2010
Refactor: 21 April 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Site Recovery Manager has the option to enable alarms, and have the alarms send to an email inbox. This is very fortunate because if something goes wrong you really want to be aware of what is happening. There are a lot of alarms that can be triggered, including and not limited to:
And many more. I tried to count them and came up to 90 alarms (SRM 5.1). As far as I know it's not possible to create custom alarms, but I can't think of any alarm that is not available.
Alarms at my company are configured to send an email (although other options are available) and for email configuration the SMTP settings from vCenter are used. To check or configure these settings start the vSphere Client → Go to Administration → vCenter Server Settings → Mail.
Also note:
Before you can enable an alarm you have to configure it first. Follow these steps to configure and enable an alarm: