Monitoring VMware

[tonyyarusso]

"Monitoring VMware with Nagios XI" - http://bit.ly/cJgACh

"This document describes how to use Nagios XI to monitor VMware ESX, ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter Server. This document will show you how to monitor virtual machines (VMs) deployed on these products. The document is intended to be used in conjunction with the VMware configuration wizard located on Nagios Exchange"

[aijazahmedece]

Hi I've followed the document and got the wizard. I am trying to monitor a Vsphere server and i get the following options

1) Monitor the VMware host: here i am able to monitor CPU Usage, Memory, VM Status, Services, etc.

I want to know how to set the threshold to any of the above services in order to get alerted. Eg. when 8 / 11 Vm's are down or Datastore usage is more than some xxx MB??

2) Monitor a guest VM on the VMWare host:

Under the tab "Guest selection" i get an error "It appears as though the VMware SDK has not yet been installed on your Nagios XI server. You must install the SDK before you are able to use this wizard" Where i am sure i've installed SDK (Obviously )

I also understand that i can always create my own commands using ./check_esx3.pl and make my services with required threshold. Even then i am looking for any solution from the new XI interface.

Thanks in advance on for helping me

[mmestnik]

We looked into setting thresholds, however the situation is almost unnavigable. We looked at the large amount of effort needed to apply constraints onto these resources, as I hate to say any thing negative about any one else's work though, we failed to see why this task was made so difficult and thus declared it as a missing feature to the check command.

For each resource these are several sub resources, if you want to use constraints you'd have to select a sub resource. Unfortunately doing this disregards the other sub resources, so instead of 5 resources there would be 15.