SMTP, alarms, in ESXi?

[Totohydra]

Does ESXi (standalone) have methods for generating alarms or sending them via mail? I looked it up in help but "Virtual Center" was in the header and the instuctions didn't seem to map out to what they were saying.

Thanks in advance...

[Dave_Mishchenko]

You would need to generate some custom scripts perhaps using the RCLI or powershell. What sort of alerts are you looking for?

[weinstein5]

You are correct it is virtual center that allows you to send SMTP alerts - as the other poster pointed you will need the Remote CLI to possible script something -

[Totohydra]

Bummer. I was reading one of the other posts which made it sound like this was doable at the client level. In this case I would be interested in general alarms that would help me beat the phone calls in the event (no pun intended) of a system or guest outage. Sounds like a lot of trouble to get it going manually.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

I'd suggest posting your request in this forum - http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/managementapi or http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/windows_toolkit (powershel). Someone may already have something similar to what you're looking for.