Report vSphere Alarms with Powershell

By On October 30, 2009 · 4 Comments

Wow, vSphere vCenter Server has a lot of new alarms! Great for monitoring your environment. But a pain when it comes to documenting it. Thank God VMware for the PowerCLI! Just a few lines of code can do the documentation for you.

Here’s how:

# Report vSphere Alarms
# by Hugo Peeters
# www.peetersonline.nl
 
#Region Variables
$VCServer = "myVCServer"
$Outfile = "D:\scripts\Alarms.txt"
 
Connect-VIServer $VCServer
$SI = Get-View ServiceInstance
$AM = Get-View $SI.Content.AlarmManager
$myCol = @()
ForEach ($Folder in (Get-Folder))
	{
	ForEach ($Alarm in ($AM.GetAlarm(($Folder|Get-View).MoRef)))
		{
		$Alarm = Get-View $Alarm
		$myObj = "" | Select Folder, Name, Description, Enabled, Summary
		$myObj.Folder = $Folder.Name
		$myObj.Name = $Alarm.Info.Name
		$myObj.Description = $Alarm.Info.Description
		$myObj.Enabled = $Alarm.Info.Enabled
		$myObj.Summary = $Alarm.Info.Expression.Expression | Out-String
		$myObj
		$myCol += $myObj
		}
	}
$myCol | Where {$_.Enabled} | Out-File $Outfile
ii $Outfile

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4 Responses to Report vSphere Alarms with Powershell

  1. Alan Renouf says:
    October 30, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    This is one of the features I have already included in the next version of my Daily Report, nice to see you posting again ;)

    Reply
  2. Alan Renouf says:
    October 30, 2009 at 3:27 pm

    Not at all mate, its in V3 which is due to be released in the next couple of days, its all fair game, nice script !

    Reply
  3. DS says:
    September 10, 2010 at 10:34 pm

    Peeters..looks like this is the script I want but how do I execute it?
    Sorry but new to powercli and I need to pull a reports of all the alarm definitions in vsphere vcenter server.
    thanks

    Reply