check_esx.pl issue

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raamardhani7
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check_esx.pl issue

Post by raamardhani7 »

Hi Team,

We are seeing lot of load hitting our nagios server because of the plugin check_esx3.pl, could you please help us what should be do. for the time being, I have killed all the services. and similar plugin is not creating any issue on other nagios xi servers. any thoughts on this please.

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top - 11:25:30 up 114 days, 16:15,  3 users,  load average: 40.68, 42.39, 46.32
Tasks: 431 total,  29 running, 402 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 68.8%us,  5.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 13.5%id, 10.4%wa,  0.0%hi,  1.4%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  32878868k total, 20577920k used, 12300948k free,   511244k buffers
Swap:  4128764k total,   688656k used,  3440108k free, 14983964k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
12755 nagios    20   0  265m  97m 4464 R 73.3  0.3   0:06.18 check_esx3.pl
12409 nagios    20   0  289m 120m 4464 R 69.2  0.4   0:09.71 check_esx3.pl
12675 nagios    20   0  267m  98m 4460 R 64.1  0.3   0:06.45 check_esx3.pl
12408 nagios    20   0  289m 121m 4464 R 62.6  0.4   0:09.56 check_esx3.pl
12754 nagios    20   0  254m  85m 4464 R 61.7  0.3   0:05.41 check_esx3.pl
12973 nagios    20   0  261m  92m 4460 R 57.2  0.3   0:03.29 check_esx3.pl
13141 apache    20   0  489m  59m 6196 R 33.4  0.2   0:09.93 httpd
32294 apache    20   0  491m  60m 6264 R 31.3  0.2   0:36.60 httpd
13156 nagios    20   0  201m  32m 4392 R 21.2  0.1   0:00.71 check_esx3.pl
13149 nagios    20   0  199m  30m 4392 R 18.5  0.1   0:00.62 check_esx3.pl
16709 mysql     20   0 6301m 126m 4812 S 18.2  0.4 227:48.48 mysqld
13142 nagios    20   0  202m  34m 4408 R 17.0  0.1   0:00.57 check_esx3.pl
13147 nagios    20   0  200m  32m 4392 R 16.4  0.1   0:00.55 check_esx3.pl
13155 nagios    20   0  199m  30m 4392 R 16.4  0.1   0:00.55 check_esx3.pl
13150 nagios    20   0  203m  35m 4408 R 15.8  0.1   0:00.53 check_esx3.pl
13135 nagios    20   0  203m  35m 4408 S 15.5  0.1   0:00.52 check_esx3.pl
13152 nagios    20   0  205m  36m 4436 R 15.5  0.1   0:00.52 check_esx3.pl
13154 nagios    20   0  202m  34m 4408 R 15.5  0.1   0:00.52 check_esx3.pl
13143 nagios    20   0  198m  29m 4392 R 15.2  0.1   0:00.51 check_esx3.pl
13151 nagios    20   0  201m  32m 4392 R 14.3  0.1   0:00.48 check_esx3.pl
13136 nagios    20   0  205m  36m 4436 S 14.0  0.1   0:00.47 check_esx3.pl
13138 nagios    20   0  203m  35m 4436 S 13.4  0.1   0:00.45 check_esx3.pl
13134 nagios    20   0  202m  33m 4392 R 13.1  0.1   0:00.44 check_esx3.pl
13140 nagios    20   0  147m  12m 2412 R 12.5  0.0   0:00.42 check_esx3.pl
12992 nagios    20   0  205m  36m 4424 S 11.9  0.1   0:00.54 check_esx3.pl
13145 nagios    20   0  197m  29m 4392 R 11.9  0.1   0:00.40 check_esx3.pl
13153 nagios    20   0  181m  17m 2980 R 11.6  0.1   0:00.39 check_esx3.pl
13146 nagios    20   0  185m  20m 3772 R 11.0  0.1   0:00.37 check_esx3.pl
13184 root      20   0  135m 7056 2008 D 11.0  0.0   0:00.37 snmptthandler
  118 root      20   0     0    0    0 R 10.4  0.0 647:52.99 kblockd/0
13174 nagios    20   0  151m  14m 2476 R  9.2  0.0   0:00.31 check_esx3.pl
13139 nagios    20   0  203m  35m 4408 S  8.9  0.1   0:00.30 check_esx3.pl
 2876 root      15  -5  422m  43m  576 S  8.6  0.1  10905:03 tesvc
 7887 nagios    20   0 63172  12m 1056 S  8.6  0.0  21:36.03 ndo2db
 7862 nagios    20   0 69132  31m 1364 D  8.1  0.1   8:52.33 nagios
12011 nagios    20   0  106m  772  644 R  8.1  0.0   0:00.28 check_icmp
22367 apache    20   0  479m  48m 6172 S  6.3  0.2   0:09.11 httpd
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tgriep
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Re: check_esx.pl issue

Post by tgriep »

The link below is an alternative way to monitor your VMWare servers using SSH and a free VMA guest server you can download from VMWares site.
Take a look at it and if you have any questions, please post them here.
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... rd/details
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