PLugin to monitor VM in ESXI server

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pradeepanan
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PLugin to monitor VM in ESXI server

Post by pradeepanan »

Hi All,

I was looking for plugin or script to montior vms running on ESXI servers as hypervisor level not OS. I would like to monitor things like CPU load , memory usage , etc.

Have anyone gone through same stream of mine or have any idea where i should look for? Any help would be great full .


Thanks in Advance
rkennedy
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Re: PLugin to monitor VM in ESXI server

Post by rkennedy »

This will provide the host information that you're looking for I believe.

https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... re/details
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pradeepanan
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Re: PLugin to monitor VM in ESXI server

Post by pradeepanan »

Thanks for the response. This plugin however says not designed to install on nagios host. This brings down the whole purpose :/
ssax
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Re: PLugin to monitor VM in ESXI server

Post by ssax »

The reason why it uses the vMA appliance is because the vMWare SDK is very resource hungry.

This may work for you:

https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... py/details


You can view all the vMWare plugins that we have listed on our exchange here:

https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... nts/VMWare
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nozlaf
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Re: PLugin to monitor VM in ESXI server

Post by nozlaf »

pradeepanan wrote:Thanks for the response. This plugin however says not designed to install on nagios host. This brings down the whole purpose :/
I dont think you are understanding exactly how it works, ESXi doesnt expose anything about the hypervisor to monitoring systems to do this you need to use the vMA, which is what the box293_check_vmware does
the plugins work within nagios and will report performance / status via nagios
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rkennedy
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Re: PLugin to monitor VM in ESXI server

Post by rkennedy »

Thanks @nozlaf

@pradeepanan - let us know if you have any further questions.
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