Vmware monitor wizard

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elade
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Vmware monitor wizard

Post by elade »

Hi,

I'm using Vmware wizard to monitor ESXi.
I'm trying to understand the thresholds in some of the options.

1) VM Status for VMHost - when I check the host health (RUNTIME -s health) I want to the alert will exit with warning and not unknown.
2) Services for VMHost - some of the service when they are down that's OK and I don't want it as alert. How I can change it?
For example: service ntpd need to be down and the alert need to be OK (not critical).

Any way to do changes in the scripts or i don't use the thresholds ok?
ssax
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Re: Vmware monitor wizard

Post by ssax »

1. If it's the plugin returning UNKNOWN, what does it say? You can use the negate plugin to return different statuses as a heavy handed approach:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

2. If the check runs it will always ALERT (note that alert does not mean notify/email, what I mean is that it will still show in the interface), if you do not want to see them, disable the service so that it doesn't run. If you are talking about notifications/email, you can edit the service and disable notifications on the service under the Alert Settings tab.

I would recommend you copy the plugin, make changes, then create a duplicate command in Configure > Core Config Manager > Commands that calls the modified plugin otherwise it will be reverted if we ever upgrade our plugin.

Let us know if you have any questions.
elade
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Re: Vmware monitor wizard

Post by elade »

Thank you I will try to change the plugin
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Re: Vmware monitor wizard

Post by benjaminsmith »

HI,
Thank you I will try to change the plugin
Sounds good. Just let us know if you have further questions.
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elade
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Re: Vmware monitor wizard

Post by elade »

Hi,

I did some changes in the plugin script so it will do the work for me.
Thank you!
You can close the topic
benjaminsmith
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Re: Vmware monitor wizard

Post by benjaminsmith »

Fantastic!

Thanks for the update and we'll close this out.
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