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I will explore your suggestion on the security workaround, sounds like a good idea. As for SNMP, yes you are 100% correct, I wish they had not removed it and find it surprising that their large institutional customers let them do so. I guess industry is now moving toward CIM and dropping SNMP, but N...

Thanks for the recommendation, regretfully this plugin has two issues that I was hoping to avoid: - the login and password for the ESXi server is submited everytime Nagios polls the server and the information is stored in the clear in the config files. This is a real security concern - The output fo...

It seems like the Dell monitoring plugins fall into one of three categories: OMSA based plugins: don't work on ESXi due to lack of SNMP/NRPE support DRAC based plugins: don't supply drive/storage monitoring, which besides power supplies is the most critical items we need monitored OMSA traps: doesn'...

Regretfully that is not the case for ESXi 5.x, see the documentation here: http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/ch ... -supported

Is it possible to monitor Dell hardware events on Nagios when the operating system in question is ESXi 5.x. All the plugins that I have found for OpenManage or ESXi only seem to support generic hardware notifications (hard drive full, CPU overloaded, etc.) but does not seem to support lower level ha...