PowerCLI – Remove SNMP Traps from vCenter Alarms

04/07/2019

PowerCLI

Use Case

You do not want to flood HP OpenView, Netcool or any other SNMP trap receiver with the out of the box vCenter alarms.

Ex. Cannot connect to storage

Results

The script will ask for the vCenter name. Log Insight show 30 alarms were reconfigured (not removed)

The Script

#  https://vmscribble.com/powercli/powercli-remove-snmp-traps-from-vcenter-alarms/
#  Tested on vCSA 6.7 

Write-Host " The PowerCLI script will remove sending of SNMP traps from all Alarms in the vCenter"

$vCenter = Read-Host "Enter the vCenter Name"

# Connect to your vCenter
Connect-VIServer $vCenter

# Remove the SNMP trap action
$TheAction = Get-AlarmAction -actiontype sendsnmp
Remove-AlarmAction -alarmaction $TheAction -Confirm:$false

# Disconnect from the vCenter
Disconnect-VIServer $vCenter -Confirm:$false

# https://vmscribble.com/powercli/powercli-remove-snmp-traps-from-vcenter-alarms/

# Tested on vCSA 6.7

Write-Host " The PowerCLI script will remove sending of SNMP traps from all Alarms in the vCenter"

$vCenter = Read-Host "Enter the vCenter Name"

# Connect to your vCenter

Connect-VIServer $vCenter

# Remove the SNMP trap action

$TheAction = Get-AlarmAction -actiontype sendsnmp

Remove-AlarmAction -alarmaction $TheAction -Confirm:$false

# Disconnect from the vCenter

Disconnect-VIServer $vCenter -Confirm:$false