vCenter Alarm Setup Script for vCenter 6/6.5

vCenterAlertConfig.ps1

## VMWare Alert Setup Script
##Modified from https://fixingitpro.com/2012/07/09/powercli-script-to-automatically-setup-vcenter-alarm-email-notification/ 
## For use with vCenter 6/ 6.5 
## Modifications by Pierce Fortin
## PFortin93@gmail.com

$user="USERNAME"
$pass="PASSWORD"
$vCenterServer="vCenterIP"


$MailtoAddresses= "EMAIL@ADDRESS.TLD"


#----Connect to the vCenter Server

Connect-VIServer -Server $vCenterServer -Protocol https -User $user -Password $pass -WarningAction SilentlyContinue | Out-Null

$sessionManager = Get-View -Id $global:DefaultVIServer.ExtensionData.Content.SessionManager
$sessionManager.SetLocale(“en-US”)

#----These Alarms will send a single email message and not repeat ----
$LowPriorityAlarms="Timed out starting Secondary VM",`
"Virtual Machine Fault Tolerance vLockStep interval Status Changed",`
"Migration error",`
"Exit standby error",`
"License error",`
"Virtual machine Fault Tolerance state changed",`
"VMKernel NIC not configured correctly",`
"Unmanaged workload detected on SIOC-enabled datastore",`
"Host IPMI System Event Log status",`
"Host Baseboard Management Controller status",`
"License user threshold monitoring",`
"Insufficient vSphere HA failover resources",`
"License capacity monitoring",`
"Pre-4.1 host connected to SIOC-enabled datastore",`
"License inventory monitoring",`
"Appliance Management Health Alarm",`
"Cannot connect to storage",`
"Cannot find vSphere HA master agent",`
"Data Service Health Alarm",`
"ESX Agent Manager Health Alarm",`
"Host error",`
"Host hardware fan status",`
"Host hardware power status",`
"Host hardware system board status",`
"Host hardware temperature status",`
"Host hardware voltage",`
"Host IPMI System Event Log status",`
"Host memory status",`
"Host processor status",`
"Host service console swap rates",`
"Host storage status",`
"Network connectivity lost",`
"Network uplink redundancy degraded",`
"Network uplink redundancy lost",`
"Status of other host hardware objects",`
"vCenter Server Health Alarm",`
"Virtual machine Consolidation Needed status",`
"VM MAC Conflict",`
"VMware Common Logging Service Health Alarm",`
"vSphere HA failover in progress",`
"vSphere HA virtual machine failover failed",`
"vSphere HA virtual machine monitoring action",`
"vSphere HA virtual machine monitoring error",`
"vSphere HA VM Component Protection could not power off a virtual machine",`
"vSphere HA virtual machine failover failed",`
"vSphere vCenter Host Certificate Management Mode",`
"License capacity monitoring"


#----These Alarms will repeat every 24 hours----
$MediumPriorityAlarms=`
"Virtual machine error",`
"Host cpu usage",`
"Health status monitoring",`
"Host memory usage",`
"Cannot find vSphere HA master agent",`
"vSphere HA host status",`
"Host service console swap rates",`
"vSphere HA virtual machine monitoring action",`
"vSphere HA virtual machine monitoring error"


#----These Alarms will repeat every 2 hours----
$HighPriorityAlarms=`
"Host connection and power state",`
"Host processor status",`
"Host memory status",`
"Host hardware fan status",`
"Host hardware voltage",`
"Host hardware temperature status",`
"Host hardware power status",`
"Host hardware system board status",`
"Host battery status",`
"Status of other host hardware objects",`
"Host storage status",`
"Host error",`
"Host connection failure",`
"Cannot connect to storage",`
"Network connectivity lost",`
"Network uplink redundancy lost",`
"Network uplink redundancy degraded",`
"Thin-provisioned volume capacity threshold exceeded.",`
"Datastore cluster is out of space",`
"vSphere HA failover in progress",`
"vSphere HA virtual machine failover failed"

#---Set Alarm Action for Low Priority Alarms---
Foreach ($LowPriorityAlarm in $LowPriorityAlarms) {
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$LowPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail| Remove-AlarmAction -Confirm:$false
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$LowPriorityAlarm" | New-AlarmAction -Email -To @($MailtoAddresses)
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$LowPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Green" -EndStatus "Yellow"
    #Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$LowPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Yellow" -EndStatus "Red"  # This ActionTrigger is enabled by default.
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$LowPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Red" -EndStatus "Yellow"
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$LowPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Yellow" -EndStatus "Green"
}

#---Set Alarm Action for Medium Priority Alarms---
Foreach ($MediumPriorityAlarm in $MediumPriorityAlarms) {
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail| Remove-AlarmAction -Confirm:$false
    Set-AlarmDefinition "$MediumPriorityAlarm" -ActionRepeatMinutes (60 * 24) # 24 Hours
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | New-AlarmAction -Email -To @($MailtoAddresses)
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Green" -EndStatus "Yellow"
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | Get-AlarmActionTrigger | Select -First 1 | Remove-AlarmActionTrigger -Confirm:$false
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Yellow" -EndStatus "Red" -Repeat
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Red" -EndStatus "Yellow"
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$MediumPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Yellow" -EndStatus "Green"
}

#---Set Alarm Action for High Priority Alarms---
Foreach ($HighPriorityAlarm in $HighPriorityAlarms) {
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$HighPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail| Remove-AlarmAction -Confirm:$false
    Set-AlarmDefinition "$HighPriorityAlarm" -ActionRepeatMinutes (60 * 2) # 2 hours
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$HighPriorityAlarm" | New-AlarmAction -Email -To @($MailtoAddresses)
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$HighPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Green" -EndStatus "Yellow"
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$HighPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | Get-AlarmActionTrigger | Select -First 1 | Remove-AlarmActionTrigger -Confirm:$false
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$HighPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Yellow" -EndStatus "Red" -Repeat
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$HighPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Red" -EndStatus "Yellow"
    Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "$HighPriorityAlarm" | Get-AlarmAction -ActionType SendEmail | New-AlarmActionTrigger -StartStatus "Yellow" -EndStatus "Green"
}

#---Disconnect from vCenter Server----
Disconnect-VIServer -Server $vCenterServer -Force:$true -Confirm:$false