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vCloud monitoring through Nagios Core?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 4:08 pm
by swapnil.kadam
Hello Techies,
I am new to Nagios Core and currently looking to integrate our vCloud with Nagios by leveraging vCloud API if there is one available or is there any alternative to monitor vCloud through Nagios instead of adding individual VMs.
Regards,
Swapnil
Re: vCloud monitoring through Nagios Core?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:19 pm
by slansing
I wasn't able to find any plugins that can query that API directly, you would likely need to create a custom plugin which can talk to it following our plugin guidelines:
https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html
Alternatively, is this something you could check with SNMP?
Re: vCloud monitoring through Nagios Core?
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:41 pm
by swapnil.kadam
Would it be a better idea to check with VMware if they have any vCloud API which can be integrated with Nagios Core?
Re: vCloud monitoring through Nagios Core?
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:12 pm
by slansing
Can you provide a bit more detail in regards to your last post? Thanks!
Re: vCloud monitoring through Nagios Core?
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 11:19 am
by swapnil.kadam
I mean as of now I do not have any access to the underlying ESX hosts, we are limited to vCloud but I’m not sure if vCloud provides any APIs that could be leveraged by Nagios or either way.
Re: vCloud monitoring through Nagios Core?
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 12:13 pm
by scottwilkerson
We don't have vCloud in house to test but many of the VMWare API's work alike.
It does appear vCloud does have an API
https://pubs.vmware.com/vcd-51/index.jsp#doc/index.html
Best I can suggest would be to try a vCenter/ESX plugin against your vCloud server.