Hi Simon,
NPM, SAM, and VMAN are 3 different products in the SolarWinds portfolio. The alerting and collection engines between the products are different and one product does not (generally) tell another product whether or not to alert on something. There are some sublteties here I'm overlooking, but that's generally how it works.
At the moment, neither Virtualization Manager nor NPM/SAM collect VMware Events. Unfortunately, VMware Events appear to be the only way to get information about whether a standby operation was DRS related or not, as described in this documentation. vSphere 5.5 Documentation Center.
Event Type | |
|---|---|
Successfully entered Standby mode (host power off succeeded) | |
Currently, we do collect some information in VMAN about DPM, but it does not appear to be enough to support the above use case. The product currently supports these attributes for clusters (and related objects):
*.cluster.dpm.enabled - If 'true', DPM is enabled on the Cluster, 'false' otherwise.
*.cluster.dpm.mode -The operating mode of DPM if it is enabled.
*.cluster.dpm.hostPowerActionRate - DPM generates only those recommendations that are above the specified rating. Ratings vary from 1 to 5. This setting applies to both manual and automated (@link DpmBehavior) DPM clusters.