Managing alarms

To manage the different aspects of an alarm, we can use the following cmdlets:

• Get-AlarmAction

• New-AlarmAction

• Remove-AlarmAction

• Get-AlarmDefinition

• Set-AlarmDefinition

• Get-AlarmActionTrigger

• New-AlarmActionTrigger

• Remove-AlarmActionTrigger

There is no direct cmdlet available to create an alarm. We can create an alarm using the vSphere APIs, which we will cover in a later chapter. So, in this section, we will cover how to define and manage the different aspects of an existing alarm.

An alarm has main three parts: an alarm definition, alarm action, and alarm action trigger.

In the following screenshot, the definition is where you will define the name, description, type, and whether it is enabled or not:

We can use the Get-AlarmDefinition cmdlet to get the details regarding the definition of an existing alarm:

Next, we will make changes to the different points. We will use the Set-AlarmDefinition cmdlet for this. In the following example, we changed the name of an existing...