Vmware Monitoring?

[gdolidze]

Can you do vmware host monitoring with the log server.

As in the hyper-visor not the guests.

[jolson]

Yes, and fortunately it's not too difficult to set up.

First, we need to setup a new input in Nagios Log Server. Navigate to Administration -> Global Configuration. Once there, click 'Add Input' and name it something appropriate (I named mine "ESXI log input).

After you have named the input, type the following into the body:

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udp {
type => 'esxilogs'
port => 1514
}

After you have pasted this configuration into the body, press 'Save & Apply'. You have just configured Logstash to listen on port 1514 (required by ESXI).

Now, we need to open that port on the firewall of Nagios Log Server. To do so, enter the following commands on the CLI:

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iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 1514 -j ACCEPT
iptables-save | sudo tee /etc/sysconfig/iptables
service iptables restart

After that is complete, follow this VMWare configuration guide to setup your ESXI hosts to log to udp://nagios.log.server.ip:1514

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micros ... Id=1007329