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March 25, 2025

Listing and Displaying Health Monitors Using the ‑H Option

You can use the vdmadmin command -H to list the existing health monitors, to monitor instances for Omnissa Horizon components, and to display the details of a specific health monitor or monitor instance.

Syntax


vdmadmin -H [-b authentication_arguments] -list -xml [-w | -n]

vdmadmin -H [-b authentication_arguments] -list -monitorid monitor_id -xml [-w | -n]

vdmadmin -H [-b authentication_arguments] -monitorid monitor_id -instanceid instance_id -xml [-w | -n]

Usage Notes

The following table shows the health monitors that Omnissa Horizon uses to monitor the health of its components.

Health Monitors
MonitorDescription
CBMonitorMonitors the health of Omnissa Horizon Connection Server instances.
DBMonitorMonitors the health of the events database.
DomainMonitorMonitors the health of the Horizon Connection Server host's local domain and all trusted domains.
SGMonitorMonitors the health of security gateway services and security servers.
VCMonitorMonitors the health of vCenter servers.

If a component has several instances, Omnissa Horizon creates a separate monitor instance to monitor each instance of the component.

The command outputs all information about health monitors and monitor instances in XML format.

Options

The following table shows the options that you can specify to list and display health monitors.

Options for Listing and Displaying Health Monitors
OptionDescription
-instanceid instance_idSpecifies a health monitor instance
-listDisplays the existing health monitors if a health monitor ID is not specified.
-list -monitorid monitor_idDisplays the monitor instances for the specified health monitor ID.
-monitorid monitor_idSpecifies a health monitor ID.

Examples

List all existing health monitors in XML using Unicode characters.

vdmadmin -H -list -xml

List all instances of the vCenter monitor (VCMonitor) in XML using ASCII characters.

vdmadmin -H -list -monitorid VCMonitor -xml -n

Display the health of a specified vCenter monitor instance.

vdmadmin -H -monitorid VCMonitor -instanceid 4aec2c99-4879-96b2-de408064d035 -xml

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