Reporting on ESXi 5 Environment

[bseymour]

I have been requested to build a daily health report for our vSphere 5 environment and I was wondering what other report on. I alos have vCOPs to help with reporting. Is there possibly a daily report I can setup from there?

[aravinds3107]

Take a look at this (http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9842) and see if it helps

[bseymour]

Can you help me with this part?

Download the packaged script vmwarevSphereHealthCheck.tar.gz and transfer it to your vMA host

What is the best way to transfer this to the server?

[aravinds3107]

You can use WinSCP or FastSCP to transfer the files to the host

[jrmunday]

Don't forget about vCheck by Alan Renouf;

http://www.virtu-al.net/vcheck-pluginsheaders/vcheck/

[bseymour]

This is nice but I run into a lot of errors saying: ps1 is not digitally signed.

[jrmunday]

Changing your execution policy will resolve this;

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

NAME
    Set-ExecutionPolicy

SYNOPSIS
    Changes the user preference for the Windows PowerShell execution policy.

SYNTAX
    Set-ExecutionPolicy [-ExecutionPolicy] {Unrestricted | RemoteSigned | AllSigned | Restricted | Default | Bypass | U
    ndefined} [[-Scope] {Process | CurrentUser | LocalMachine | UserPolicy | MachinePolicy}] [-Force] [-Confirm] [-What
    If] [<CommonParameters>]

DESCRIPTION
    The Set-ExecutionPolicy changes the user preference for the Windows PowerShell execution policy.

    To run this command on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and later versions of Windows, you must start Windows Po
    werShell with the "Run as administrator" option, even if you are a member of the Administrators group on the comput
    er.

    The execution policy is part of the security strategy of Windows PowerShell. It determines whether you can load con
    figuration files (including your Windows PowerShell profile) and run scripts, and it determines which scripts, if a
    ny, must be digitally signed before they will run.

    For more information, see about_Execution_Policies.

RELATED LINKS
    Online version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113394
    Get-ExecutionPolicy
    Set-AuthenticodeSignature
    Get-AuthenticodeSignature
    about_Execution_Policies
    about_Signing

REMARKS
    To see the examples, type: "get-help Set-ExecutionPolicy -examples".
    For more information, type: "get-help Set-ExecutionPolicy -detailed".
    For technical information, type: "get-help Set-ExecutionPolicy -full".