Missing disk status in the agentless monitroing of VMs

[dwhitfield]

Are you getting any sort of error when using our documentation? Can you provide that? Text is best. Please put the output in a code block. The "Code" button is the fifth from the left on the post input screen (between Quote and List).

What version of vCenter?

Can you PM me your Profile? You can download it by going to Admin > System Config > System Profile and click the ***Download Profile*** button towards the top. If for whatever reason you *cannot* download the profile, please put the output of View System Info (5.3.4+, Show Profile if older) in the thread (that will at least get us some info). This will give us access to many of the logs we would otherwise ask for individually. If security is a concern, you can unzip the profile take out what you like, and then zip it up again. We may end up needing something you remove, but we can ask for that specifically.

After you PM the profile, please update this thread. Updating this thread is the only way for it to show back up on our dashboard.

[Ivajlo911]

Hi,
profile itself contains IP addresses and names of servers. I can submit this output from system info if it is OK?

Thank you.

[tgriep]

I am guessing that you are trying to monitor the Disk IO for a guest running in your VMWare servers and you are receiving the following error,

ESX3 CRITICAL - HOST-VM IO Unknown error

Correct?

I think that the newer version of VMWare is causing an issue or that they removed the ability to poll the disk information remotely using the check_esx3 plugin.

If you do not want to install an agent on the guests, the only alternative is to use this alternate plugin which requires you to install a vMA server in to your virtual environment.
Take a look at the links below for more details on how to setup and use that method for monitoring your VMWare infrastructure.
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... re/details
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... er/details
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... rd/details

[Ivajlo911]

Hi,
thank you please close it and mark resolved.

[kyang]

Sounds great! I'll be closing this topic as resolved!

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