Comments on: PowerCLI: SnapReminder

By: VMware Scripting: Snapshots auf der Spur

VMware Scripting: Snapshots auf der Spur — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:06:23 +0000

[...] Man kann via vCenter Alarme für Snapshots definieren (etwas mühselig), via Powershell-Skript die Ersteller von alten Snapshots automatisiert benachrichtigen, den snapshotmanager.pl des Perl SDKs zum Anzeigen verwenden oder aber den Report von William [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:15:43 +0000

@Falko
I had this error also. In my case it was because the Administrator made the snapshot an there is no email adress for Administrator in the AD. My Solution:

Line 10:
if ($username -ne $null -and $username -ne “Administrator”)

Line 86:
if($Mailto -eq $null){
$msg.To.Add(“vmadmin@blah.bla”)
}
else{
$msg.To.Add($Mailto)
}

Hth

By: Falko

Falko — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:56:33 +0000

Well, for me it is semi-working. I get emails, but the script gives me the following error:

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At :line:63 char:83
+ $key = $_.EntityName + “&” + ($snapshot.CreateTime.ToString <<<< ())

Index operation failed; the array index evaluated to null.
At :line:64 char:32
+ $report[ <<<< $key] = $row

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:35:29 +0000

Good script,thanks. I had a problem with the timing, so I changed the line 50 to:
$filter.Time.beginTime = (($snap.Created).AddMinutes(-30)

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:13:38 +0000

@chris My blog mangled the code, I have now moved it over to a different hosting method so please try the above. Let me know if you have any further issues.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:51:52 +0000

I get an error when running the script error line 93 char 13

+ $MailText = @ <<<< "

If I remove the @ I get another error with another @ symbol farther down.

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Virtu-Al » PowerCLI: SnapReminder « ben.neise.co.uk — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:53:16 +0000

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By: VMware vSphere 4 has a Snapshot Alarm | VCritical

VMware vSphere 4 has a Snapshot Alarm | VCritical — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:16:18 +0000

[...] Snapshots have always been a powerful feature of VMware ESX — even in production deployments. There are tons of innovative tools and scripts out there to monitor snapshots — just check out this new one from Virtu-Al. [...]

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:02:47 +0000

@Jason Boche Thanks man

By: Virtu-Al

Virtu-Al — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:02:24 +0000

@Ivo Beerens Good thinking V2 Coming up !