Monitor Datastore through Vcenter in Nagios

[arunkrishnan.tvm]

I am monitoring Datastore through ESX server using Nagios plugin in Nagios Xi.
Is it possible to monitor datastore directly through Vcenter using any nagios plugin ?

[Box293]

box293_check_vmware can do exactly that.
box293_check_vmware can be downloaded here:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... re/details

There is also a wizard for it:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Ad ... rd/details

[arunkrishnan.tvm]

Thank you Box293.

So this plugin can use to check shared datastores through Vcenter (without connecting to ESX Hosts) ?

I will test the same and get back to you if I have any questions.

[rkennedy]

Just to clarify - what kind of storage is the datastore hosted on? Are you looking to run a check against that device directly?

[arunkrishnan.tvm]

We are using Shared Storage (netapp). We would like to monitor the usage through Vcenter because when we try to check the usage through ESX host we are not getting proper output. It looks different than Vcenter usage output.

[rkennedy]

Can you show us a screenshot of the mixed results you're seeing?

[Box293]

Thank you Box293.

So this plugin can use to check shared datastores through Vcenter (without connecting to ESX Hosts) ?

I will test the same and get back to you if I have any questions.

Yes, it connects to vCenter and queries the datastores from there. There are only four datastore checks available:

Datastore_Cluster_Status
Datastore_Cluster_Usage
Datastore_Performance
Datastore_Performance_Overall

Read the manual, it explains what they do with examples.

We would like to monitor the usage through Vcenter because when we try to check the usage through ESX host we are not getting proper output. It looks different than Vcenter usage output.

Do you mean usage like "disk space" or "performance" ?