Nagios ESXi hard drive check
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Nagios ESXi hard drive check
Hi,
I would like to performance an ESXi hard drive test. I would like get the following data:
STATUS, POWER SUPLY, Usage, etc.
There is no data storage connected to the ESXi.
Thank you in advance.
I would like to performance an ESXi hard drive test. I would like get the following data:
STATUS, POWER SUPLY, Usage, etc.
There is no data storage connected to the ESXi.
Thank you in advance.
Last edited by Nagios_Admin_M on Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:19 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Nagios ESXi hard drive check
Have you investigated the box293_check_vmware plugin? It's quite comprehensive:
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... re/details
I'm not certain if it will return specific power information for disks, but it does return some performance metrics.
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... re/details
I'm not certain if it will return specific power information for disks, but it does return some performance metrics.
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Re: Nagios ESXi hard drive check
This plugin doesn't work on Nagios box, but on ESXi server. Is there a one which is a Nagios addon and do not requires ESXi installation ?
Re: Nagios ESXi hard drive check
It does work on the Nagios machine, however in order to poll for data you must install pre-reqs on the ESX machine.
As for what you're after, this sounds like it might be possible if your hardware vendor supports SNMP at a hardware / remote access layer since it doesn't pertain to VMware.
As for what you're after, this sounds like it might be possible if your hardware vendor supports SNMP at a hardware / remote access layer since it doesn't pertain to VMware.
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Re: Nagios ESXi hard drive check
Is there a plugin which doesn't require VMware installation ?
Last edited by Nagios_Admin_M on Tue Jan 17, 2017 4:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Nagios ESXi hard drive check
There is not. The exception is what I mentioned above -
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As for what you're after, this sounds like it might be possible if your hardware vendor supports SNMP at a hardware / remote access layer since it doesn't pertain to VMware.
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Re: Nagios ESXi hard drive check
Hey,
After a brief review I understood that, the plugin must be installed on vMa and then it gets data through vCenter. Is it optional to use it directly between Nagios and VmWare ESXi ?
After a brief review I understood that, the plugin must be installed on vMa and then it gets data through vCenter. Is it optional to use it directly between Nagios and VmWare ESXi ?
Re: Nagios ESXi hard drive check
You could do that, but it's really really not recommended to run the vMa server on the same machine as Nagios XI. You'll, at a bare minimum, take a huge performance hit. At worst, you could create a situation with conflicting Perl modules.
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Re: Nagios ESXi hard drive check
I won't use it in my scenario than. Is there a possibility to install NRPE++ client on the ESXi server ? It could get the service information that I would really need.
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Re: Nagios ESXi hard drive check
You would probably have better luck using NCPA since basically it's only dependency is python and can run active or passive checks on behalf of your Nagios install.
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help.php
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/ncp ... g_NCPA.pdf
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help.php
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/ncp ... g_NCPA.pdf
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf
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