Detaching baselines at the vcenter server level

[sastre]

Hi,

I'm writing a custom PowerCLI script to remediate an individual cluster. One of the steps I wish to perform before remediating is to ensure that any *existing attached* baselines are detached so that the script doesn't remediate against those but only the one passed as a parameter. The detach process I want to follow is, detach at:

1) the vcenter server level.

2) the datacenter level.

3) the parent folder level.

4) the cluster itself.

5) all hosts within the cluster.

All work fine, except for 1. E.g.

$vcenterBL = Get-Baseline -Entity "vcenter.domain.com"
if($vcenterBL -ne $null)
{
     Write-Output "Removing baselines attached at the vCenter server level."
     Detach-Baseline -Entity "vcenter.domain.com" -Baseline $vcenterBL -Confirm:$false
}

However I get the error:

Get-Baseline : 08/05/2012 16:22:37  Get-Baseline  Could not find InventoryItem with name 'vcenter.domain.com'.
At line:1 char:13
+ Get-Baseline <<<<  -Entity "vcenter.domain.com"
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (vcenter.domain.com:String) [Get-Baseline], VimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_ObnSelector_SelectObjectByNameCore_ObjectNotFound,VMware.VumAutomation.Commands.Get Baseline

Indeed, Get-Inventory shows no "vcenter.domain.com". How do I detach or attach at this level?

Thanks for any help!

[LucD · Accepted solution]

You could use the hidden folder Datacenters.

Something like this

$entity = Get-Folder Datacenters 
$vcenterBL = Get-Baseline -Entity $entity
 if($vcenterBL -ne $null)
{
     Write-Output "Removing baselines attached at the vCenter server level."
     Detach-Baseline -Entity $entity -Baseline $vcenterBL -Confirm:$false
}

[sastre]

Woohoo, it works. Thanks!