Monitoring VMs with vMotion enabled

[mlk0506]

Hello, I have several VMs that I want to monitor, but our environment uses vMotion, so how do you setup the VMware plugin to monitor the guest VM if it moves to a different host? Would I need to create multiple versions so that no matter what host the guest VM moves to it will be monitored? Thanks.

[tmcdonald]

You can always use passive checks. Passive checks are when the client/host sends the results back to Nagios, sort of backwards of how Active checks work. This way Nagios doesn't know or care where the host is as long as the host knows where Nagios is.

[mlk0506]

I didn't think about that. Thank you very much.

[tmcdonald]

Not a problem. Want us to keep this thread open while you test it, or shall we close this and mark as solved?

[mlk0506]

Mark as solved please.

[tmcdonald]

Mark as solved please. :)

Aye, captain.