Create alarm by mail for snapshot

[mimo974]

Hello,

Its possible to create an alarm on vcenter 6.0 for snapshot when still have it on VM more 2 days. I tried to find on vcenter alarm default but cant find it.

Do you think can make an alarm for snapshot ?

Thank you for your helps.

Francois.

[HassanAlKak88]

Hello,

On the vCenter you can create alarms that are based on 3 types of triggers: event, metric and state. The age of a snapshot doesn't fall under any of these triggers I'm afraid.

Kindly check the following a script to manage your request, maybe it will be helpful: PowerCLI Scripting - SnapShot Create Date is older than 3 days

[mimo974]

Hello,

Thank for your help. Im not an expert with PowerCLI and have some parts on this script im not sure.

1/ When the script is ready i just need to open a vmware powerCLI and start the script ?

2/ I can let the script in mu computer on C:\ ?

3/ I put on red some lines i not sure

# PowerShell script to check for VM snapshots and send Email report

add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

Connect-VIServer -Server <ip-or-host> -User <username> -Password <password> (I need to let -Server -User and -Password ? and i need to right in clear my password ?)

# HTML formatting

$a = "<style>"

$a = $a + "BODY{background-color:white;}"

$a = $a + "TABLE{border-width: 1px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;border-collapse: collapse;}"

$a = $a + "TH{border-width: 1px;padding: 5px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;foreground-color: black;background-color: LightBlue}"

$a = $a + "TD{border-width: 1px;padding: 5px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;foreground-color: black;background-color: white}"

$a = $a + "</style>"

# Main section of check

Write-Host "Checking VMs for for snapshots"

$date = get-date

$datefile = get-date -uformat '%m-%d-%Y-%H%M%S'

$filename = "c:\dir\Snapshots_" + $datefile + ".htm" (Its directory of my computer ?)

# Get list of VMs with snapshots

# Note:  It may take some time for the  Get-VM cmdlet to enumerate VMs in larger environments

$ss = Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Where {$_.Created -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-3)}

Write-Host "   Complete " -ForegroundColor Green

Write-Host "Generating VM snapshot report"

#$ss | Select-Object vm, name, SizeGB, Created, powerstate | ConvertTo-HTML -head $a -body "<H2>VM Snapshot Report</H2>"| Out-File $filename

$ss | Select-Object vm, name, SizeGB, Created, powerstate | ConvertTo-HTML -head $a -body "<H2>VM Snapshot Report </H2>"| Out-File $filename

Write-Host "   Complete " -ForegroundColor Green

Write-Host "Your snapshot report has been saved to:" $filename

$SMTPServer = <smtp_server>

$SMTPPort = 587

$Username = "email@email.com"

#Define the receiver of the report

$to = "recipient.email@email.com"

$subject = "VM Snapshot Report"

$body = "VM Snapshot Report"

$attachment = new-object Net.Mail.Attachment($filename)

$message = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage

$message.subject = $subject

$message.body = $body

$message.to.add($to)

$message.from = $username

$message.attachments.add($attachment)

$smtp = New-Object System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SMTPServer, $SMTPPort);

$smtp.EnableSSL = $true

#$smtp.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($Username, $Password);

$smtp.send($message)

write-host "Mail Sent"