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The documentation above makes it seem like vCenter will create environment variables when specific alerts/alarms are triggered. I'm assuming, since the documentation doesn't make it clear, that on a Windows-based vCenter server these are environment variables that I can access in CMD via "set" or in Powershell via Get-ChildItem Env:, is this correct or do i have to look somewhere else or run a different command to actually see them once they've been triggered? Right now when i trigger an alert, I'm not finding these variables in either CMD or PS. Regardless of an alert being active, I am able to see other VMware environment variables like VMWARE_OPENSSL_BIN or VMWARE_VAPI_HOME or VMWARE_CFG_DIR, I just never see any VMWARE_ALERT_(anything) variables show up at all.
I'm essentially trying to duplicate this post, http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2016/06/how-to-run-a-script-from-a-vcenter-alarm-action-in-the-vcsa.html , but it's not clear where command the author used to take the screenshot of his environment variables. Are they in a specific user context or is there a different command i need to run in order to see them, other than Set or Get-ChildItem Env:?
