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Setting up vcenter 6.5 email alerts manual#

I just selected the Auto Deploy service and clicked Restart.

Setting up vcenter 6.5 email alerts manual#

Image Builder is stopped, but since it is a Manual service, it shouldn’t be much of an issue, but the Auto Deploy service seemed to be in a degraded state. So I connected to the VAMI ( and navigated to Services. That’s quite a helpful message, it even tells me what to try next. Try restarting the service to fix the issue.” “Managing depots is temporary unavailable. So first check the status of Auto Deploy (vSphere H5 client -> Menu -> Auto Deploy), and there we have an error message: This article does not apply to vSphere 6.0” “This article provides troubleshooting guidance on VMware Auto Deploy 5.x. The blog post points to VMware KB2000988. Something that is not used by the customer at this point, but is nevertheless enabled, and encountered some sort of error. Sure enough, VMPros already blogged about it. Not really sure what the issue could be, I just googled it. $AlertEmailRecipients = " greeted me this morning with a RBD Health Alarm. $vcenterusername = import-csv c:\scripts\vsphere60-alarms.csv

Blank (aka no value) – Leave the alarm as is in case you manually configured the alert and wish to keep it that way.

Use this on alerts that are far too chatty (looking at you VM CPU and memory usage!), and you wish to turn emails for them off.

Disabled – Removal of all email alert actions.

(I originally set this to hourly, but customer feedback said this was far too much.)

High Priority – Removal of all email alert actions, and reconfigured to send one repeated email every four hours for more serious alerts.

Medium Priority – Removal of all email alert actions, and reconfigured to send one repeated email daily for more serious alerts.

Low Priority – Removal of all email alert actions, and reconfigured to send one email without repeat emails for non-critical alerts.

Next, set the values within the CSV according to how you want that alert configured within the Priority column. You simply set the variables at the beginning of the script, which includes info such as vCenter servers, the CSV file to be used, vCenter user name and password, the SMTP server and port to use, etc. This PowerCLI script to configure vCenter alarm email actions is very straight forward. Ready to use a PowerCLI script to configure vCenter alarm email actions? Directions for PowerCLI Script to Configure vCenter Alarm Email Actions I intend also to maintain the CSV files here as I receive feedback on the alarms.

The CSV file provides an opportunity to track changes to alerts and a deliverable document.

Change the values within the script, and simply rerun it.

Ongoing maintenance of the alerts is a snap.

Don’t like them? It’s easy to change them within the script.

It provides a three-tiered priority system for email frequency.

I can easily dump those alarm names into a new CSV and set their values. Each version of vSphere adds, removes, or changes alarms.

One can easily adapt the script to new versions of vSphere.

Even if you want the script to do something else, it’s easy to follow and adapt. Also, I really love the design of this script for several reasons:

Not to simply take the script, I added additional functionality to it, to provide end to end configuration, including vCenter SMTP email server settings, as well as the ability to configure multiple vCenter servers in one fell swoop. I very much want people recognized for their hard work. If you stumble on this and know who originally made the similar script, please comment below. I found a good script about a year ago to do this with PowerCLI script using a CSV of the alarms. Introduction to PowerCLI Script to Configure vCenter Alarm Email Actions

Plus, vCenter contains many alerts, and many people do not know which ones you should configure for emails, and how critical each one is. While this provides granularity and customization opportunities, it creates a boring snoozefest, inviting confusion and human error in configuring them. You can also set repeated email actions on each alarm. On top of that, you configure each alarm with the email address(es) you want to be sent alerts. You really want to use a PowerCLI script to masnage vCenter alarm email actions!įor one, the action must be set individually on each alarm. Have you ever gone through your vCenter and configured alarms to email? If you have, you know that if anything ever screamed for automation within vSphere, it’s this, as it is extremely tedious.