export and import vcenter alarms

[vinod_sikka]

Hi,

I am working on migrating all configured alarms from one production vcenter (running on 5.1) to another (running with 5.5). Is there a way or power CLI script to perform the same task.

your prompt answers will be highly appreciated. I need this badly.

[vThinkBeyondVM · Accepted solution]

Please refer below resources

VMware KB: Restoring and copying vCenter Server alarms

Download | stripeyfish

Script to export/import Alarms between VC or synchronize alarms between 2 Virtual Centers

[vinod_sikka]

Hi Vicky,

Thanks for your quick response. When I tried downloading sfvAlarmsSetup from Download | stripeyfish it downloads a pps file, setup is missing there, can you pl try, if you find setup, could you please upload here.

I tried VMware KB: Restoring and copying vCenter Server alarms, it fails with following error :-

Confirm

Are you sure you want to perform this action?

Performing operation "Disconnect VIServer" on Target "User: ADS\Vinod Sikka,

Server: amdc-vc01, Port: 443".

[Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [N] No  [L] No to All  [S] Suspend  [?] Help

(default is "Y"):A

Cannot convert argument "entity", with value: "System.Object[]", for

"GetAlarm" to type "VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference": "Cannot convert the

"System.Object[]" value of type "System.Object[]" to type

"VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference"."

At C:\Users\Vinod Sikka\Downloads\scripts\copyalarms\copyalarms.ps1:134 char:1

+ $vc2alarms = get-view $vc2alMgr.GetAlarm($vc1root)

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodArgumentConversionInvalidCastArgument

[vinod_sikka]

I renamed the downloaded sfvAlarmsSetup.pps to sfvAlarmsSetup.msi and it worked.