PowerCli 5.1 - Get all Warning Events from host

Have you had a look at Opvizor - http://www.opvizor.com/

(free trial available!)

Thanks Hancock!!!

We actually use Foglight by Quest and was looking for a command-line way to get this information as backup if the vAPP was down and to expand my own powercli knowledge. :-)

Thanks Again!!!

have you tried Event-O-Matic

http://www.lucd.info/tag/event/

No I have not heard of Even-o-matic... I am surprise that isn't an easy way to view all event of a specific type from one window...

I will check out this tool morning tomorrow though

You are not using vCenter Server? Because it will allow retrieval of all managed hosts at once.

I get a nice even list using Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) on vMA 5.5

events -n 50 /vcenter/DCS

and you can specify, storage, datastores, vms, hosts, networks

Thanks Hancock..... We are no using the vMA......

Am I missing something that is informal is not readily available by default...

As always you are a source of information :-)

vMA - You should really, as it includes all the tools, easily at your disposal!

It's just an Import from OVF, takes minutes to get up and running, join to Active Directory, so anyone can login, and run vCLI, esxcli, script etc

Events has always been one of those missing things, they don't get reported by Syslog, VMKernel, they just appear in vCenter, and then after 24 hours, disappear off the screen, but the data is in the SQL database - but awkward to get at!

e.g. like what user delete a VM, what user Power-On on a VM - these are handy for audits....

We use Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) on vMA, but also remember this is available in vCenter for Windows and also vSphere Appliance!

So you'll have access to it somewhere, and it's quicker, that writing scripts to get info really quickly.

Can Ruby be used from a Widnows 7 workstation that connects to vCenter?