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Why am I missing cpu count data in my Server Virtualization dashboard?

luisgustavo
Explorer

When you click a Virtual Machine or Host in a dashboard (server virtualization app) the first dashboard shows vm/host name, and CPU count or vCPU/pCPU ratio. These are always N/A for me.
Seems that either the search is missing a filter to use only records that have the cpu count field, or the scripts do not put this field in all records.

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luisgustavo
Explorer

Trying to fix the Virtual Machine dashboard (when you click a VM), i added vm_cpu_count=*, so the first hidden search became:

    <param name="search">
                    `servervirt_index` sourcetype=hypervisor:*:vm vm_cpu_count=* vm_name="$vmname$" |
                    head 1 |
                    fields vm_host vm_cpu_count
    </param>

About the hosts dashboard (when you click a host), there seems to be a similar problem, but changing the eventtype to eventtype=servervirt:* in the third search seems to fix it:

                <param name="search">
                    eventtype=servervirt:* cpu_count="*" hyp_hostname="$hostname$" |
                    head 1 |
                    fields hyp_hostname cpu_count |
                    rename hyp_hostname as vm_host cpu_count as pCPU |
                    join type=inner vm_host [search eventtype=servervirt:vm:* vm_cpu_count=* | dedup vm_id | fields vm_cpu_count, vm_host | stats sum(vm_cpu_count) as vCPU by vm_host ] |
                    eval avgcpu=round(vCPU/pCPU,2) |
                    rangemap field=avgcpu ok=0-`alerts-high_vCPU_to_pCPU` default=critical |
                    table vm_host, pCPU, vCPU, avgcpu, range
                </param>
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