Comments on: Alarms – Adding an action

By: LucD

LucD — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 07:26:12 +0000

In reply to mahednra. Hi, not sure what you are trying to do here. What exactly are you trying to import ?

By: mahednra

mahednra — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 07:20:43 +0000

In reply to LucD. i have tried this power script but while importing is not success please help to how to import script

By: LucD

LucD — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:00:36 +0000

In reply to NMED. @NMED, there are some good export-import functions from Angel in the Script to export/import Alarms between VC or synchronize alarms between 2 Virtual Centers thread on the PowerCLI Community. Did you try those ?

By: NMED

NMED — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:03:11 +0000

Hi Luc; very good post, but i’don’t know after an export and after to have deleted all alarms in my vCenter to imprt a alrm-actions.xml file?
Thank you again for your Help.

By: LucD

LucD — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:39:08 +0000

In reply to Cal. Hi Cal, I assume you also raised a similar question in the PowerCLI Community (where I just answered). Afaik it's not possible to define a metric alarm for a Resource Pool. My understanding is that the metric alarms use "realtime" metrics to decide if an alarm needs to fire or not. The Resource Pool metrics that you see in the vSphere client are "aggregated values", in other words they only exist for the Historical Intervals, not for the Realtime interval. See my PowerCLI & vSphere statistics – Part 1 – The basics post for more info on these intervals. So I'm afraid you can only have a CPU/MEM alarm for hosts and virtual machines.

By: Cal

Cal — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:37:09 +0000

Hello Luc,

Could you tell me if it is possible to add an alarm on the Resource Pools (CPU usage) ? And if yes, how one can manage to implement it ? We kind of tried but all we got so far is an error : “A Specified parameter was not correct”.

Charles

By: LucD

LucD — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:42:33 +0000

In reply to Twanoo. @Twanoo, just tried the script and it works for me. Could you perhaps PM me with a bit more information (for example screenshot of the Alarm settings before and after,...) ?

By: Twanoo

Twanoo — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:22:21 +0000

Hello Luc!

I have a problem using your script on my environment,
when I configure an email alert by your script I get an event “cannot send email to …”
and no email is received in my mailbox.

beside when I configure it manually, I get the “sent email to…” event,
and the email is properly receive.

Any thougths for me?

By: Twano_O

Twano_O — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:07:48 +0000

@Charlie Hi Charlie, I met the exact same error as you with the "Datastore usage on disk" reconfiguration, did you found the solution for that one?

By: LucD

LucD — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:27:17 +0000

In reply to Charlie. Hi Charlie, I would need a bit more information on what you were trying to do. What was already in the "Datastore usage on disk" alarm ? And which action were you trying to add ? If you want you can email me some screenshots. Use lucd (at) lucd (dot) info