monitor ESXi 5 servers

[orcasa]

I want to monitor ESXi servers, i am using The check that the wizard use. Although , I don't know how to monitor local filesystems ex: /var.

Thanks

[slansing]

Are you speaking of the Nagios XI ESX monitoring wizard's check?

[orcasa]

Yes , I use the wizard but i don't know What check I have to use

[slansing]

Well, the check that the wizard uses in XI is the following:

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./check_esx3.pl -H "HOSTADDRESS"

Are you trying to reproduce what the wizard does in XI, to core?

[orcasa]

Yes, I reproduce the checks of the wizard, but the problem is that the wizard hasn't a check to monitor local filesystem ex:/var

[jsmurphy]

Short answer: You can't.

Better answer: The ESX wizard is for configuring monitoring of the ESX/vSphere application and will only provide information allowed by VMWare API's. There was a time when you could actually do some dodgy stuff on the ESX shell to get monitoring of the OS, though it did void your service contract. Unfortunately you can't do that sort stuff any more.