Hardware Monitoring for ESXi Server

[nishantsharan]

Need a urgent help,i want the hardware of the ESXi servers to be monitored and to display all the hardware status in the Nagios XI Console. I have HP Proliant DL380 G7 servers on which ESXi server has been configured.
I have gone through various documentation and found one Plugin wbempy.pl for hardware monitoring which is uploaded in Nagios Server and i have installed the Python on Nagios Server.But still i am not getting any display for the Hardware on Nagios Console.

Any help is highly appreciated.

[sreinhardt]

Have you configured a check command and service that you could share, so that we can see how you are attempting to run this? Have you run it via the cli, and if so what are the results?

[slansing]

You're going to need to share a bit more information, we need to see the command definition you are using for the plugin, and your service configurations. Have you taken a look at this plugin?:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... re/details

If your ESXi system is on a standard *nix server I would not see any problem with trying to use for instance, the linux monitoring wizard to get hardware metrics, then using something such as the aforementioned plugin for more vmware specific checks on the same host.

[nishantsharan]

Thanks for your quick replies.

But the issue is that i am very new to Nagios and Linux. i have jst downloaded the plugin from the below site and uploaded tht plugin in Nagios. Install the prequisite only.

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... Xi/details

I have not configured any thing else.

I am not sure about command configuration and service configuartion you are talking about.

Need your help guys. Please help me out.

[tmcdonald]

Being new to Linux, you'll have a bit of a steeper learning curve, but the following document explains from start to finish how to install plugins and configure commands for them:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ios-XI.pdf

[455157]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but have you tried the VMware wizard?

It can monitor:

CPU Usage
Memory
Networking
Input / Output
Datastore usage
VM Status
Services

...on the host:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ios_XI.pdf

The wizard should be pre-loaded, so you can skip the "Installing the VMware Wizard" section.

Maybe there are other items you'd like to monitor outside of those.

[mmiltchev]

nishantsharan, has your issue been resolved?