Nagios XI Monitoring Vmware VM Name

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emartine
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Nagios XI Monitoring Vmware VM Name

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Is there a check that can monitor a VMname against its datastore name?

I want to create a check that allows nagios to review when a VM in VMware has an inconsistent datastore folder name.

Just wondering if anyone has a plugin/configuration for it.
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Re: Nagios XI Monitoring Vmware VM Name

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Interesting, I personally really dislike that as well!

What plugins are you currently monitoring them with?
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Re: Nagios XI Monitoring Vmware VM Name

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We are just monitoring esxhosts with a perl script we found called check_esx3.pl

I believe it is this one..

https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... st/details
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Re: Nagios XI Monitoring Vmware VM Name

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I don't currently have access to an ESXi host (I will Monday) can you send me the verbose output of a vmware filesystem output so that I can see if the data is even available from the VMWare API?

Additionally, what versions of ESXi are you running?
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Re: Nagios XI Monitoring Vmware VM Name

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I don't have full access to make calls to vmware. The tool we have been using to gather info has been rvtools and we kinda figure that if this data can be gather it should be check capable in nagios.
https://www.robware.net/rvtools/
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Re: Nagios XI Monitoring Vmware VM Name

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I don't believe any plugins I have seen have this capability.
emartine wrote:The tool we have been using to gather info has been rvtools and we kinda figure that if this data can be gather it should be check capable in nagios.
https://www.robware.net/rvtools/
It is likely a plugin could be created that could gather and process the same data that rvtools does, but one doesn't currently exist to my knowledge.
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