Sending Alerts to the Event log is fairly simple.
Create a vbs file and put it on your VC server, say in C:\
alert.vbs
' Takes alerts from VirtualCenter and puts them in the EventLog
Const LogName = "Application"
EventID = WScript.Arguments.Item(0)
Source = WScript.Arguments.Item(1)
Description = WScript.Arguments.Item(2)
Set WshShell=WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strCommand="eventcreate /T Warning /ID "& EventID & " /L "&LogName&" /SO "& _
Chr(34) & Source& Chr(34)& " /D " & Chr(34) & Description & Chr(34)
WshShell.Run strCommand
All this script does is take 3 parameters, and creates a Warning event to the Application Event Log, the parameters are.
1. Event id, number between 1 and 1000.
2. Event Title
3. Event Description
You can pass parameters to the script from VirtualCenter, I picked \{alarmName} \{newStatus} and \{eventDescription} as the most appropriate.
There are other parameters that can be passed to the script, but the above seems to work well.
Other parameters:
\{eventDescription}
\{targetName}
\{alarmName}
\{triggeringSummary}
\{declaringSummary}
\{oldStatus}
\{newStatus}
\{target}
To configure: In VirtualCenter select an Alert, i.e. ESX Host Connection Status; Select Actions, and add an action of Run Script, and enter the following script command to run:
cscript c:\alert.vbs 700 "\{alarmName} \{newStatus}" "\{eventDescription}"[/b]
This will then call the vb script and log events in the event log, it seems to work for all alerts. The only thing I suggest changing is the event ID for each alert.
John
