Monitoring Esxi 5.x hosts

[actimizer]

Hi

I have been going out of my mind lately because, no matter what I do, I can't seem to setup monitoring of our ESXi 5.x hosts.

I have installed the SDK and all the prereqs as suggested in the manual and on this forum. http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ios_XI.pdf

I have updated all I can think of: Nagios XI 2012R2.1, VMware config wizzard 1.5, VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.1.0-780721.x86_64

All other types of hosts - Linux and Windows are running fine.

The wizzard seems to finish fine, but the host will fail ping test, and all services will get status of timeout.

I have no idea where to go next Plz assist

Best regards

Jannik

[abrist]

If the host fails the ping check, it most likely cannot be reached by the XI server. Can you ping the host from the cli? Is there a firewall/router between the XI server and the ESX server?

[actimizer]

Problem solved.

Not really sure why it worked - but a reboot of Nagios did the trick ( quite sure I did that once before).

Hmmmm - not reasuring - but a solution none the less

Thx

[slansing]

Hmm, maybe configuration changes somewhere had to get a grip, thanks for letting us know.