Issues with reporting of vCenter Server Alarms in vSphere 8.0

[tpcarman]

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Generating a VMware vSphere As Built Report with vCenter InfoLevel = 5 fails when reporting the vCenter Alarms.

This issue is due to some alarms within vCenter Server 8.0 not having an Alarm name defined.

Alarm	Description	Enabled	Entity	Trigger	Trigger Info
		Enabled	Datacenter	SendSNMP:Green->Yellow (Repeat=False)	--
		Enabled	Datacenter	SendSNMP:Yellow->Red (Repeat=False)	--
		Enabled	Datacenter	SendSNMP:Red->Yellow (Repeat=False)	--
		Enabled	Datacenter	SendSNMP:Yellow->Green (Repeat=False)	--

This can be corrected by modifying

$Alarms = $Alarms | Sort-Object 'Alarm', 'Trigger'

and changing it to

$Alarms = ($Alarms).Where{ $_.alarm -ne "" } | Sort-Object 'Alarm', 'Trigger'