Edit Alarm Action E-mail Recipients

[NeedToKnowBasis]

I was wondering if anybody had a script for PowerCLI/vCenter 5.5 to mass edit the e-mail recipients under "Configuration" for 'Send a notification email' under Alarm->Actions in vCenter.

I looked throughout Google but I had only found broken links or scripts that are for version < 5.0

I would ideally like it to over-write the entire list of values but if there is one available that will simply append new recipients to all alarms, I could deal with that as well

Thanks for any help you may provide

[LucD]

Mh, wondering if this could be a regional settings thing.
I'm working in EN-us, and you?
Did you change any of the regional settings, like separator for example?

[NeedToKnowBasis]

Yup, EN-US as well for me - I don't think anybody has touched any regional settings

[LucD]

Then it looks like a 5.5 vs 6.5 change.
Unfortunately I don't have a 5.5 environment to test anymore.

[NeedToKnowBasis]

Oh okay, well thanks so much for all of your help with this! I will try to noodle around with the script to see if I can get it to budge.

When you mention specifying the alarm (as to avoid wiping out my entire alarm sendemail triggers), if I wanted to change the Cannot connect to storage alarm, would it look something like this:

foreach($alarm in Get-AlarmDefinition){

foreach($action in (Get-AlarmAction -AlarmDefinition Cannot connect to storage)){

if($action.ActionType -eq 'SendEmail'){

if($action.To.Split(',') -contains $oldEmail){

$newTo = @($action.To.Split(',') | %{

if($_ -eq $oldEmail){

$newemail

else{

$_

if($action.To -ne $newTo){

Remove-AlarmAction -AlarmAction $action -Confirm:$false

New-AlarmAction -AlarmDefinition $alarm -Email -To $newTo -Subject $mail.Subject -Confirm:$false

[LucD]

Change the first line

foreach($alarm in (Get-AlarmDefinition -Name 'Cannot connect to storage')){

    foreach($action in (Get-AlarmAction -AlarmDefinition $alarm)){

        if($action.ActionType -eq 'SendEmail'){

            if($action.To.Split(',') -contains $oldEmail){

                $newTo = @($action.To.Split(',') | %{

                    if($_ -eq $oldEmail){

                        $newemail

                    }

                    else{

                        $_

                    }

                })

                if($action.To -ne $newTo){

                    Remove-AlarmAction -AlarmAction $action -Confirm:$false

                    New-AlarmAction -AlarmDefinition $alarm -Email -To $newTo -Subject $mail.Subject -Confirm:$false

                }

            }

        }

    }

}

[kondrichRHI]

We are also facing the problem that multiple email addresses get separated by semicolon via PowerCLI, whereas VCSA 6.5d and above and VCSA 6.7 require a colon between email addresses for emails to get sent.

New-AlamAction documentation tells us that an array of strings should be fine: Online Documentation - Cmdlet Reference - VMware {code}

But actually, it's not. It does not matter, if I create the alarm action via my box with German regional settings or with another user on another box using English settings from GUI to deepest number and date settings in Windows: VCSA receives semicolons.

I found tweo workarounds for this: Either correct or create the alarm actions manually which is awkward or open Postgres port in VCSA database, connect to the VCDB using any ODBC driver and issue an UPDATE statement replacing the seperators directly in vc.vpx_alarm_action table (don't forget to restart VCSA after that). Of course, the latter is completely evil and is unsupported by me, by VMware and even higher instances. 😉

[Q1t1]

Hi all,

To modify the recipients to multiple email addresses, use :

$newEmail = @("abc@domain.com","xyz@domain.com")

Regards,