NagiosXI - Excessive Nagios Logins to VMware ESXi Hosts

[Pselvin]

Hi There,

I would need your assistance to change the polling interval on Nagios for vCenter. I have set the Nagios to check every 15 minutes in the service check but, vCenter logs nearly 1,500 "logged in" events from Nagios every HOUR. That's approximately 27 login events per server per server. Nagios is still checking server every 2 minutes. Thousands of alerts per hour makes it impossible to review logs and/or troubleshoot actual issues on these hosts.

Could you please assist to advise to adjust this check interval.

[scottwilkerson]

How many different services in total do you have setup checking these servers?

For example are you polling individual VM's for data? If so, include all of them in the total.

[Pselvin]

Great! Thank you Scott for your input.

Appreciate it.

[scottwilkerson]

Great! Thank you Scott for your input.

Appreciate it.

Let us know if we can be of further assistance

[Pselvin]

We are looking for a way to Monitor the ESXi through vCenter. Please let me know the best way to do the same, We are currently using PERL script

check_esx3.pl 

[scottwilkerson]

We are looking for a way to Monitor the ESXi through vCenter. Please let me know the best way to do the same, We are currently using PERL script

The best way is to use the VMware wizard in Nagios XI