How to monitor VmWare cluster Networks with Nagios XI

[ar0431]

We want to monitor bandwidth utilization of "VmWare Cluster networks". Please let me know how we can monitor this.

[mbellerue]

There are probably a couple of ways to go about this. I'm looking at this document,
https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/inde ... A63DD.html

And the first thing that jumps out to me is that you could monitor the port bandwidth utilization at the switch. That's a feature that is available on many switches.

[ar0431]

Thanks for response. The link you provide is also good document. I want to monitor bandwidth utilization of "vSphere Distributed Switches" and want to monitor "group ports" on "vSphere Distributed Switches". See the following document.

https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere ... witch.html
https://searchvmware.techtarget.com/def ... VMware-vDS

[mbellerue]

Currently our monitoring of VMWare is based off of VMWare's Perl SDK. I did a quick look on the Nagios Exchange, and I don't see any plugins that include checks for distributed virtual switches. You may have to take a look at VMWare's SDK documentation to see if it's something that you feel you can create a plugin for based off of the SDK. Or you can contact [email protected] and start a conversation about our team building a plugin for this.

Here's the documentation I found on the SDK, and distributed switch health checks.
https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-re ... -guide.pdf

https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/inde ... 79A82.html

Here is the documentation on how to install the VMWare SDK for use with Nagios.
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

And plugin development guidelines in case you want to create the plugin to do this.
http://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html