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stripeyfish
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Import and Export of alarms in vCenter - utility application

Finding an easier way of managing alarms within vCenter has been bugging me for a while. I know there are the following VMware KBs to help:

But these didnt really help provide something that was easy to use and backup / restore / return alarms to cutomised set. I also didnt want to get in to PowerShell and wanted something that could just be a standard Windows UI driven process. There have been several posts in the past and when vSphere 5 came out I expected this to be addressed out of the box but not to be!
Anyway to cut to the chase have been brushing up on my C# skills and getting familiar with the Web Services SDK, serialisation and other things and have managed to put together something that thought I would share on the community forums. Also as a technical exercise and to learn a bit about WordPress, have started a blog to host it :smileygrin:
If you would like to be my guinea pigs Smiley Wink please have a peruse of the User Guide I have put together for the application. The WordPress hosted blog has links to download the installer if you want to give it a whirl. All comments / feedback / bug reports(!) greatly received.
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stripeyfish
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Uploaded a new version that now supports vCenter 5.1.

Now you can export and import your custom alarms between vCenters and also between vCenter versions with just a few mouse clicks.

Jump straight to download page to try it out. There is a comprehensive user guide on the page as well which gives you full run down on the utility. Hope you find it useful. Post or link to my blog if you do and as before all feedback, suggestions, issues greatly received :smileygrin:

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spawnxx
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Hey Stripey, I really like your tool. but it's not working anymore on VCSA 6.7 ( connection failed, the underlying connection was refused )

I suspect you will need to compile it again with the new WEB SDK for 6.7 to make it work again.

Do you plan to update it in the future?   I hate powershell! Your tool was perfect for my needs.

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