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or at a later time of your choosing. There's also an option for setting a recurring schedule,
but for adding a host, the recurring option doesn't really make sense. Click OK once your
scheduler is coni gured.
10.
Specify that you want to receive email notii cation of the scheduled task when it com-
pletes by supplying an email address. Note that vCenter Server must be coni gured with
the name of an SMTP server it can use.
Scheduling the addition of an ESXi host is of fairly limited value. However, the ability to
schedule tasks such as powering off a group of VMs, moving their virtual disks to a new data-
store, and then powering them back on again is quite useful.
Using Events Console in vCenter Server
The Events view in vCenter Server brings together all the events that have been logged by vCen-
ter Server. Figure 3.23 shows the Events view with an event selected.
Figure 3.23
h e Events view
lets you view
event details,
search events,
and export events
(highlighted).
You can view the details of an event by simply clicking it in the list. Any text highlighted
in blue is a hyperlink; clicking that text will take you to that object in vCenter Server. You can
search through the events using the search box in the upper-right corner of the vSphere Web
Client content window, and just on the right below the event list is a button to export the events
to a text i le. Figure 3.24 shows the dialog box for exporting events.
