Running Powershell script

Hi,

After a little help and understanding, not very experienced with scripts using them in RDM.

We have a simple PowerShell script to disable or enable alarms on ESXi hosts.

Outside of RDM works great, added into RDM and used the parameter feature and got it to load the prompt for vcenter and creds. Worked great also!

Decided to up the ante and try to work out how I can make it so you can run it against any vcenter entry and it would pass through the host, username and password of the entry to the param fields and then run the script..

Won't lie.. Chatgpt has been asked..

Here is the PowerShell script

param (
    [string]$vcenter,
    [string]$username,
    [string]$password
)

# Load PowerCLI
Import-Module VMware.PowerCLI

# Suppress cert warnings
Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -Confirm:$false | Out-Null

# Convert plain text password to secure string
$securePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $password -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($username, $securePassword)

# Connect to vCenter using credentials
try {
    Connect-VIServer -Server $vcenter -Credential $cred -ErrorAction Stop
    Write-Host "Connected to $vcenter successfully."
} catch {
    Write-Warning "Failed to connect to $vcenter. Exiting script."
    exit
}

# Get AlarmManager view
$alarmMgr = Get-View AlarmManager

# Get all clusters
$clusters = Get-Cluster

foreach ($cluster in $clusters) {
    Write-Host "`nCluster: $($cluster.Name)"

    $choice = Read-Host "Enable or disable alarm actions for this cluster and its hosts? (enable/disable)"

    switch ($choice.ToLower()) {
        "enable" { $actionState = $true }
        "disable" { $actionState = $false }
        default {
            Write-Host "Invalid input. Skipping cluster $($cluster.Name)."
            continue
        }
    }

    # Enable/Disable alarm actions on the cluster
    $alarmMgr.EnableAlarmActions($cluster.ExtensionData.MoRef, $actionState)
    Write-Host "Cluster '$($cluster.Name)' alarm actions set to $actionState."

    # Apply to each host in the cluster
    $vmhosts = Get-VMHost -Location $cluster
    foreach ($vmhost in $vmhosts) {
        $alarmMgr.EnableAlarmActions($vmhost.ExtensionData.MoRef, $actionState)
        Write-Host "  Host '$($vmhost.Name)' alarm actions set to $actionState."
    }
}

Write-Host "`nDone."

Here are my parameters with values set:

It appears to partly work.. as I see the vcenter host name pull through, however I then get several errors:


Clearly a lack of understanding on my part!