VMWare/ Xenserver Monitoring

[455157]

How does Nagios XI get data from VMWare and Xenserver?

Does it use the API's?

Thanks.

[abrist]

There may be some plugins that use the APIs, while others use snmp or actual agents.
For Xen plugins: http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... chword=xen
For VMWare/esx plugins: http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... ord=vmware
And: http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... chword=esx

[455157]

Thank you abrist.

Do you know what the Nagios XI wizard for VMWare uses?

[slansing]

The VMWare wizard that is included with Nagios XI installations uses the check_esx3.pl plugin. This plugin will be already installed on your XI server at the following directory path:

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_esx3.pl

[lmiltchev]

It uses the "check_esx3.pl" plugin.

[455157]

Thanks for the quick help!

I may've worded my question poorly - does check_esx3.pl utilize the VMWare API to run the checks, or a different method?

I'm not seeing that plugin on Exchange, so didn't see any details there. . .

[sreinhardt]

Yes it does use the VMware API, and that will have to be installed separately due to licensing, along with a few dependencies.

[455157]

Just what I needed, thanks Nagios team.

[abrist]

Great, best of luck!