VxRail: How to Get the List of vCenter Alerts in SNMP Trap Format

Summary: In some environments, the monitoring of VxRail or vCenter is done on a third party software and the customer must get a list of vCenter alerts in SNMP trap format.

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Instructions

SNMP Traps are alert messages sent from a remote SNMP-enabled device to a central collector, the "SNMP manager." A Trap might tell you that an alert has been raised for a device.

Trap messages use Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to enable communication between an SNMP Agent on a device and an SNMP Manager. 

To get a list of vCenter alerts using the VCDB database:  

  1. Connect to vCenter using SSH
  2. Enter the command below to output the vCenter alarm list to a text file: 
    psql VCDB -U postgres -c "select * from vpx_alarm;">/var/tmp/MyFile.txt
  3. Connect to vCenter with an application like WinSCP and download the file from /var/tmp
  4. Upload the file to Excel and edit as needed. 

Affected Products

VxRail, VxRail Appliance Series, VxRail Software
Article Properties
Article Number: 000014253
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 23 Dec 2025
Version:  9
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