Change Alert Ownership

You can retrieve all active alerts for a specific datastore and assign the alert ownership to your user profile.

Prerequisites

• Verify that you are connected to a VMware Aria Operations instance.
• Verify that you are connected to the vCenter Server system that is monitored by the VMware Aria Operations instance.

Procedure

1. Get all active alerts for the datastore.

   $alerts = Get-Datastore 'shared' | Get-OMResource | Get-OMAlert –Status Active | where { ($_.AssignedUser -eq $null) -and ($_.ControlState -eq 'Open') }

2. Assign the obtained alerts to the user profile you are currently using.

   $alerts | Set-OMAlert –TakeOwnership