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  • Update: Trigger a User event from the VCSA command line

    Mar 16, 2018 Scripts VCSA VMware

    Disclaimer: This is not officially supported by VMware, please use at your own risk. Recently I faced the challenge with a script running on a VCSA which executes some checks and in case something gets detected it has to trigger a vCenter alarm. My solution is to log a user event which will be captured by an vCenter …

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  • vCenter notification send push message using Prowl to iOS devices

    Jan 11, 2017 Homelab vCenter VCSA VMware

    I would like to receive push messages for triggered alerts from my vCenter. There is the possibility to execute a command when a alert has been triggered so I decided to write a script which will use Prowl to send push notification to my mobile apple device. I used Prowl already for other devices like my Homematic home …

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  • Get all guest IPs of all your Virtual Machines using Powershell

    Aug 10, 2016 PowerShell Scripts VMware

    This is a small powershell script to get all Guest IPs from all virtual machines $VCENTER="10.1.1.3" Connect-VIServer -Server $VCENTER $vms = Get-VM | Sort $file = "c:\ip_list.txt" foreach ($vm in $vms){ foreach($ip in $vm.Guest.IpAddress){ Write-Host "$vm $ip" "$vm $ip" | Out-File -FilePath $file -Append } } …

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  • Upload file to webdav using Powershell

    Mar 3, 2016 PowerShell Scripts webdav

    This is small powershell script to upload a file from your local disk to a webdav server. It is also proxy capable.#Complete path of the file to be uploaded $file = "d:\test_file.txt" #URL without the last "/" $url = "https://YOUR-SERVER/webdav" $proxy = "http=PROXY-SERVER:PORT" …

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  • Monitor System Logs with Logwatch

    Mar 2, 2016 log files logwatch Scripts Ubuntu

    I’m using the tool Logwatch to get a daily log report from all my servers by email. Install Logwatch:apt-get update apt-get install logwatch Config file:/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf To simplify the access to the config file I use a symlink.cd /etc/logwatch ln -s …

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  • Collect ESXi stats with powershell and send it to Graphite server

    Dec 20, 2011 CentOS PowerShell Scripts VMware

    I was not quite happy with the statistics from the vCenter. It is not possible to get an overview overall my ESXi servers. 🙁 Someone pointed me to the tool Graphite that this is a cool solution to visualize such kind of statistics. So I decided to give it a try. I created and virtual machine running Centos and Graphite …

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  • HomeLab and nested ESXi server

    Oct 9, 2011 Homelab PowerShell VMware

    After an short weekend with a minimal of sleep … I’m done my Homelab is up and running. Furthermore I have created an template of an nested ESXi (virtualized ESXi). These nested ESXi are perfect for testing of Powershell scripts which I use to initial configure an new ESXi. Next steps which I have planned is to migrate …

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  • Change HA settings for virtual machines using Powershell

    Sep 30, 2011

    Using this small script it is possible to change the HA settings for multiple virtual machines in an HA cluster. Example: – multiple virtual machines all with Name XXX-console HA restart policy possible values: -HARestartPriority:Low -HARestartPriority:High -HARestartPriority:Disabled -HARestartPriority:Medium …

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  • Configure local syslog folder on all your ESXi servers

    Aug 18, 2011

    ######################################################################################################## # Steps to use the script: # # 1st: create a folder on an shared datastore # # 2nd: adjust the content of the variable $FolderName to the name of the folder created in step 1 # # 3rd: adjust the content of the …

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  • VMware Tools Status report

    May 19, 2011 PowerShell VMware

    Script to create a report about the VMware Tools status: Sample Output: Total VMs: 527 Total powered on: 474 Total powered off: 53 ToolsOK: 140 ToolsOld: 227 ToolsNotInstalled: 106 DisConnect from Virtual CenterSet-PSDebug -Strict $VIServer = "VCENTERIP" Connect-VIServer -server $VIServer -User USERNAME …

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Michael Hempel

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