# Usage ;
# Please manually connect to vCenter, use "Connect-VIServer" -- this promotes usernames and passwords not beings saved with script.
# Update below variable with email(s) use comma as delimita
$MailtoAddresses= "monitoring@company.com"
#----These Alarms will send a single email message and not repeat ----
$LowPriorityAlarms="Timed out starting Secondary VM",`
"No compatible host for Secondary VM",`
"Virtual Machine Fault Tolerance vLockStep interval Status Changed",`
"Migration error",`
"Exit standby error",`
"License error",`
"Virtual machine Fault Tolerance state changed",`
"VMKernel NIC not configured correctly",`
"Unmanaged workload detected on SIOC-enabled datastore",`
"Host IPMI System Event Log status",`
"Host Baseboard Management Controller status",`
"License user threshold monitoring",`
"Datastore capability alarm",`
"Storage DRS recommendation",`
"Storage DRS not supported on host",`
"Datastore is in multiple datacenters",`
"Insufficient vSphere HA failover resources",`
"License capacity monitoring",`
"Pre-4.1 host connected to SIOC-enabled datastore",`
"Virtual machine cpu usage",`
"Virtual machine memory usage",`
"License inventory monitoring"
#----These Alarms will repeat every 24 hours----
$MediumPriorityAlarms=`
"Virtual machine error",`
"Health status changed alarm",`
"Host cpu usage",`
"Health status monitoring",`
"Host memory usage",`
"Cannot find vSphere HA master agent",`
"vSphere HA host status",`
"Host service console swap rates",`
"vSphere HA virtual machine monitoring action",`
"vSphere HA virtual machine monitoring error"
#----These Alarms will repeat every 2 hours----
$HighPriorityAlarms=`
"Host connection and power state",`
"Host processor status",`
"Host memory status",`
"Host hardware fan status",`
"Host hardware voltage",`
"Host hardware temperature status",`
"Host hardware power status",`
"Host hardware system board status",`
"Host battery status",`
"Status of other host hardware objects",`
"Host storage status",`
"Host error",`
"Host connection failure",`
"Cannot connect to storage",`
"Network connectivity lost",`
"Network uplink redundancy lost",`
"Network uplink redundancy degraded",`
"Thin-provisioned LUN capacity exceeded",`
"Datastore cluster is out of space",`
"vSphere HA failover in progress",`
"vSphere HA virtual machine failover failed",`
"Datastore usage on disk"
#---Set Alarm Action for Low Priority Alarms---
Foreach ($LowPriorityAlarm in $LowPriorityAlarms) {
Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$LowPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail| Remove-AlarmAction -Confirm:$false
Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$LowPriorityAlarm" | New-AlarmAction -Email -To @($MailtoAddresses)
# Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$LowPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Green" -EndStatus "Yellow"
Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$LowPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Yellow" -EndStatus "Red" # This ActionTrigger is enabled by default.
# Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$LowPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Red" -EndStatus "Yellow"
# Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$LowPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Yellow" -EndStatus "Green"
}
#---Set Alarm Action for Medium Priority Alarms---
Foreach ($MediumPriorityAlarm in $MediumPriorityAlarms) {
Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail| Remove-AlarmAction -Confirm:$false
Set-AlarmDefinition "$MediumPriorityAlarm" -ActionRepeatMinutes (60 * 24) # 24 Hours
Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | New-AlarmAction -Email -To @($MailtoAddresses)
# Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Green" -EndStatus "Yellow"
Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | Get-AlarmActionTrigger | Select -First 1 | Remove-AlarmActionTrigger -Confirm:$false
Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Yellow" -EndStatus "Red" -Repeat
# Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Red" -EndStatus "Yellow"
# Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Yellow" -EndStatus "Green"
}
This is another version i created that just grabs all alarms and sets email trigger. Note that it will delete all the current triggers (so ensure you dont have SNMP traps etc that you need)