Nagios XI vs resource pools in Vmware vCenter 5.1.0

[DennisPR]

I would like to monitor and report resource pools in Vmware vCenter 5.1.0?
Would it be possible to monitor the following items in a resource pool ?

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[slansing]

You've got a few options, one would be scraping the vcenter web interface for this information with an http check, (may not be the most fun to set up, but it can be done).

You can also run the vmware wizard and see if you can get what you need, though I'm not sure it covers this.

Troy's new plugin may have what you are looking for: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... re/details

There may also be a plugin that does this located here: http://exchange.nagios.org/

[Box293]

Troy's new plugin may have what you are looking for: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... re/details

I don't have specific Resource Pool checks in the box293_check_vmware plugin, however I think that some of the cluster oriented checks would work against a resource pool.

Specifically what is it in a resource pool that you want to report on? I could add resource pool oriented checks to the box293_check_vmware plugin.

[DennisPR]

Thx Box293 for your response and very nice script !

However, I have a couple of questions about the following commands :

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./box293_check_vmware.pl --server M.y.I.P --check Guest_Snapshot --datacenter 'MyDataCenter' --warning snapshot_age:5 --critical snapshot_age:15

Returns : Can't call method "name" on an undefined value at ./box293_check_vmware.pl line 2920.
Is this a bug or am I missing a parameter ?

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./box293_check_vmware.pl --server M.y.I.P --check Cluster_Resource_Info --cluster 'MyCluster' --reporting_si CPU_Speed:MHz,Memory_Size:MB

Returns : OK: Cluster 'Cluster DCO - NFR' [Hosts {Total: 8} {Available: 8}] [{Cores (Total: 96) (Available: 0)} {CPU (Free: 229,576 MHz) (Used: 0 MHz) (Effective: 229,576 MHz) (Total: 255,936 MHz)}] [Memory {Free: 578,414 MB} {Used: 546,415 MB} {Effective: 1,124,829 MB} {Total: 1,179,565.8 MB}]|'Hosts Total'=8 'Hosts Available'=8 'Cores Total'=96 'Cores Available'=0 'CPU Free'=229576MHz 'CPU Used'=0MHz 'CPU Effective'=229576MHz 'CPU Total'=255936MHz 'Memory Free'=578414MB 'Memory Used'=546415MB 'Memory Effective'=1124829MB 'Memory Total'=1179565.8MB

What do you understand under Available cores 0 & Used Mhz 0 ?
These 2 never seem to change on several Clusters.

[Box293]

Hi Dennis,
Great to hear you've found the plugin usefull.

I checked the plugin on the Nagios Exchange and it looks like I didn't upload the latest version to it

I've just uploaded the latest version which should resolve those two issues you've reported, let me know if they don't.

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... re/details

[DennisPR]

Hi

The new version of you script fixed the issue with the CPU performance data but the snapshot command line still returns : Can't call method "name" on an undefined value at ./box293_check_vmware.pl line 2927.

[Box293]

Excellent, I'm glad we resolved one of the issues.

The other issue I beleive is caused by permissions granted to the account querying vCenter. We can confirm if this is the case by performing the check as a top level admin. Example:

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./box293_check_vmware.pl --server M.y.I.P --check Guest_Snapshot --datacenter 'MyDataCenter' --warning snapshot_age:5 --critical snapshot_age:15 --username administrator --password "D0nt Gu3ss This"

Replace the username and password values with real ones and let me know if this works.

[DennisPR]

Nope:

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./box293_check_vmware.pl --server 10.77.254.64 --check Guest_Snapshot --datacenter "Datacenter DCO01 - NFR 5.1" --username administrator --password "******"

Can't call method "name" on an undefined value at ./box293_check_vmware.pl line 2927.

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./box293_check_vmware.pl --server 10.77.254.64 --check vCenter_Name_Version --username administrator --password "******"

OK: VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0 build-947673

[Box293]

Well that blows my permissions theory out of the water.

I'll get you to send an email to [email protected] and we'll work on this problem offline.

Once I get your email I'll send you a version of the plugin with lots of debugging enabled so we can get to the root of the problem.