vCenter Alarms - bulk "Set Email Notification" change

Recently I have installed a new vCenter server and, as a good practice, was going to to configure the most critical Alarms to send email to my mailbox. Surely, it was going to be manual process as I have zero scripting knowledge except the PowerCLI minimum which was part of VCAP exam. But frankly speaking, I barely remember half of the PowerCLI command  I used to know.

However, I thought I might try to refresh my rusty PoweCLI knowledge. Therefore, I picked up the first article in search results which provided a good PS script for vCenter 5.0 and useful links for automation of the boring process of setting "Send Email" action for all Alarms. Definitely, there is still no descent explanation why VMware hasn't provided such configuration option.

While I was applying this script to my infrastructure I found out that number of Alarms differ from version to version. Here, in my company we have vCenter 5.0 Update 1a in production and vCenter 5.1 in test environment. Therefore, I have decided to adjust the script for both our versions.

So, here are the links to the scripts which might be useful for you.

• Set Email Notification script for vCenter 5.0
• Set Email Notification script for vCenter 5.0 Update 1a
• Set Email Notification script for vCenter 5.1
• Excel file with all Alarms categorized by vCenter version - god knows why you would need it :)

There are plenty opportunities to customize these scripts for more sophisticated actions, but for my scarce PoweCLI skills just an email is more than enough :)

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