Hey There,
I am trying to use power cli to modify my email alerts and have come across a small issue.
This is the line which is giving me trouble
Get-AlarmDefinition -Name
"$HighPriorityAlarm"
| Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus
"Yellow"
-EndStatus
"Red"
-Repeat
I always get an error when trying to set the yellow to red status to repeat.
I have tried green to yellow and yellow to green and they work just fine, I can also change the yellow to red in the GUI, it just wont let me do it through powerCLI?
Should I not be able to change it? I have been looking at the VMware docs all morning and cant seem to see anything which suggests I shouldnt be able to?
Thanks
Martin
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Hi Martin
I'm experiencing the same problem , did you get this resolved ?
Regards
Ashley
I suspect you already have a trigger for Yellow to Red. At least that is when I can reproduce your error.
You need a Set-AlarmActionTrigger cmdlet, which doesn't exist (yet).
Try adding a trigger for another type of trigger, for example Red to Yellow.
As an alternative combine a Remove-AlarmActionTrigger with a New-AlarmActionTrigger cmdlet.
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Please excuse my CLI noobness
When I add and use
New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "red" -EndStatus "yellow"
no problem ,
When I try
New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "yellow" -EndStatus "red”
I get errors
No problem, we were all noobs at one point in time :smileygrin:
The problem comes from the fact that you can't use the New-AlarmActionTrigger cmdlet to replace an existing trigger.
So in your case you probably didn't have a trigger for Red to Yellow, but you did have one for Yellow to Red.
If you execute the cmdlet again for the Red to Yellow trigger, you should get the same error.
You can check what triggers are there via the vSphere client as well.
The solution is to first check if the trigger is already present, and if yes, remove the trigger (Remove-AlarmActionTrigger), and finally add the "new" trigger (New-AlarmActionTrigger) with the updated settings.
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Hi
Thanks for the help so far
Unless im doing something incorrect ( which is very possible) there seems to be a problem adding a trigger for alarms going from yellow to red with repeat.
I removed all triggers etc before trying the script again and still get the issue when trying to add yellow to red.
I did another test, and it seems to work for me.
Before
Then I run this script
$alarmName = "Test Alarm" $alarm = Get-AlarmDefinition -Name $alarmName
$action = Get-AlarmAction -AlarmDefinition $alarm
$trigger = Get-AlarmActionTrigger -AlarmAction $action
$newTrigger = New-AlarmActionTrigger -AlarmAction $action -StartStatus Red -EndStatus Yellow -Repeat
Remove-AlarmActionTrigger -AlarmActionTrigger $trigger -Confirm:$false
And the result
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