VMware: Change Alarm-Actions with PowerCLI
July 4th, 2011
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I’m working on a project for a company that is running a big cloud datacenter, the organization is 24/7 and some of my colleagues need to monitor the environment week by week (standby shifts). Once a week we need to change some alarm actions to send the Alarm notifications to a different email address.. because it’s a lot of work to do this by hand I tried to script this.
You must change the email address value in the script.. and automatically change the rest of the definitions.
$MailToRandom1 = "alert_random@vmpros.nl"
Here’s my script:
#====================================================================#
# SCRIPT: Change_Alarm_Datacenter.ps1 #
# FUNCTION: Modify multiple Alarm definitions in vCenter #
# CREATED: 10/06/2011 #
# VERSION: v.1.1 #
#====================================================================#
# CHANGELOG: #
# #
# v.1.1 #
# - Deleted email body #
# - Added Alarm definition #
# - Added changelog #
# #
# v.1.0 #
# - First Release #
# #
#====================================================================#
# Note: You only have to change the "MailToRandom1" value in "Custom #
# Definitions" to change the alarm action #
#====================================================================#
# Connect vCenter server;
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
$vCenterServer = "vcenter-server"
$user = "username"
$pass = "password"
if ( $DefaultVIServers.Length -lt 1 )
{
Connect-VIServer -Server $vCenterServer -Protocol https -User $user -Password $pass -WarningAction SilentlyContinue | Out-Null
}
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Custom Definitions;
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
$actType = "SendEmailAction"
$MailToRandom1 = "alert_random@vmpros.nl"
$MailToDefault1 = "alert1@vmpros.nl"
$MailToDefault2 = "alert2@vmpros.nl"
$actAlarm1 = "Machine suspended"
$actAlarm2 = "Datastore usage"
$actAlarm3 = "Snapshot alarm"
$actSubject = "Get-AlarmDefinition"
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Delete Alarm Trigger;
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$actAlarm1" , "$actAlarm2" , "$actAlarm3" | Get-AlarmAction | Remove-AlarmAction -Confirm:$false
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Create Alarm Trigger;
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$actAlarm1" , "$actAlarm2" , "$actAlarm3" | New-AlarmAction -Email -To "$MailToRandom1" , "$MailToDefault1" , "$MailToDefault2"
Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$actAlarm1" , "$actAlarm2" , "$actAlarm3" | Get-AlarmAction | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Green" -EndStatus "Yellow"
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
# Disconnect vCenter server;
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
Disconnect-VIServer -Server $vCenterServer -Force:$true -Confirm:$false
#--------------------------------------------------------------------#
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