Disable all vsphere alarms - faster

[DyJohnnY]

Hi,.

I've got this script (works in powercli 4.1.1) that disables and enables all of my alarms.

Inoticed sometimes they get "stuck" and you can't do anything to make some of the go away.

$enabled_alarms = Get-AlarmDefinition -Enabled:$true
$enabled_alarms | Set-AlarmDefinition -Enabled:$false
$enabled_alarms | Set-AlarmDefinition -Enabled:$true

This is pretty straight forward but it takes 2 minutes to run this on a single vcenter.

Is there a faster way to do this?

Also would it be possible that I just reset just the triggered alarms not all of them?

Thanks,

ionut

[aevrov]

Hi DyJohnnY,

What I understand is that you want to "acknowledge" all the triggerred alarms. Here's how you can do it:

Connect-VIServer ....

$serviceInstance = Get-View -Id ServiceInstance
$inventoryRoot = Get-View -Id $serviceInstance.Content.RootFolder -Property "TriggeredAlarmState"

$alarmManager = Get-View -Id AlarmManager

$inventoryRoot.TriggeredAlarmState | % {
    if( -not $_.Acknowledged ) {
        $alarmManager.AcknowledgeAlarm($_.Alarm, $_.Entity)
    }
}

Regards,

- Angel

[DyJohnnY]

Thanks for the input, i got how you can filter triggered alarms.

however I am not interested in acknowledging them. I have had situations where I cannot reset alarms, they remain in vCenter, long after the condition is no longer present.

In that case I need to disable them and enable them back (it is like a workaround for making them dissappear)

Thanks

ionut

[avlieshout]

You should use the reset the alarm to green option

Must be possible with powercli also.

[cleffingwell]

Is there a script to run that will disable individual alarms by name?  I have a customer that wants to run a script that will disable certain VM-related alarms in their VC's.

Thanks,

Clint

[LucD]

This uses the SDK method to disable/enable alarms, but I'm not sure it is faster.

$alarmMgr = Get-View AlarmManager 
$alarmMgr.GetAlarm($null) | %{
    $alarm = Get-View $_
    if($alarm.Info.Enabled){
        $spec = $Alarm.Info
        $spec.Enabled = $false
        $alarm.ReconfigureAlarm($spec)
        $spec.Enabled = $true
        $alarm.ReconfigureAlarm($spec)
    }
}

The reset to green function is available in the Community Extensions

But watch out these extensions have a problem with PowerCLI 4.1 and higher due to the changed typenames.