Nagios ESXi hard drive check

[Nagios_Admin_M]

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.

[mcapra]

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.

[Nagios_Admin_M]

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 ?

[rkennedy]

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.

[Nagios_Admin_M]

Is there a plugin which doesn't require VMware installation ?

[rkennedy]

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.

[Nagios_Admin_M]

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 ?

[mcapra]

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.

[Nagios_Admin_M]

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.

[avandemore]

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