FortiSIEM VM Disk I/O Monitoring

VM Disk I/O Monitoring

Event Type: PH_DEV_MON_VM_DISK_IO

Description: Event containing VM Disk I/O performance metrics Source: All

Key Attributes:

Name Id Type Description
Event Type eventType string Event type set to PH_DEV_MON_SYS_PING_STAT
Event

Severity

eventSeverity uint16 Set to 1. In general, a number between 0 (lowest severity) and 10 (highest severity)
Event

Severity

Category

eventSeverityCat string Set to Low. IN general, takes the values Low, Medium and High. Event Severities 0-4 are mapped to

Low, 5-8 are mapped to Medium and 9-10 are mapped to High

Event

Receive

Time

phRecvTime Date Time at which AccelOps generated this event
Reporting

IP

reptDevIpAddr Date IP address of device reporting this event. In this case set to the device reporting the utilization (same as Host name attribute)
Relaying IP relayDevIpAddr Date IP address of device relaying this event from the source to AccelOps. In general it could be a syslog-ng IP address but in this, since AccelOps talks to the device directly, Relaying IP is set to AccelOps IP Address.
Raw Event

Log

rawEventMsg string Raw event containing all attributes in comma separated “[Attribute] = value” format.
vmName
Host name hostName string Host name (as in AccelOps CMDB) of the device whose CPU utilization is being reported
Host IP

Address

hostIpAddr IP Access IP (as in AccelOps CMDB) of the device whose CPU utilization is being reported
phyMachName
phyMachIpAddr
diskName
datastore
diskReadKBytesPerSec
diskWriteKBytesPerSec
diskReadReqPerSec
diskWriteReqPerSec
Poll Interval pollIntv uint32 Polling interval in seconds

Sample event:

 

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