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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Alan Renouf
October 30th, 2009
This is one of the features I have already included in the next version of my Daily Report, nice to see you posting again ;)
admin
October 30th, 2009
Oops, sorry Alan, for not checking out your fantastic reporting scripts.
Alan Renouf
October 30th, 2009
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 !