Box293 monitoring through vma

[maddev]

Hi,

I have followed documentation and configured box293 plugin to use vMA for monitoring my virtual environment which is being maintained through vcenter.
I am having trouble proceeding further from the wizard page. on step 2 of VMWare virtualization monitoring wizard I am able to retrieve all the objects except for hosts. plugin is able to retrieve vCenter objects, Datastore and guests but when I click on retrieve hosts nothing happens and in a moment it displays "No hosts found!"

Any help is appreciated.

[tmcdonald]

Troy (@Box293) should be around in a bit to help out, but in the meantime do you get any errors in /var/log/httpd/error_log when this happens?

[Box293]

It sounds like you have it all configured correctly, we just need to determine what is breaking the hosts bit.

What version of ESXi hosts are these?

I assume you are using version 2015-05-21 of the plugin.

In the steps below,
10.ZZZ.ZZZ.ZZZ = vCenter server

Log onto the vMA appliance as vi-admin.
Execute the following command:

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time ~/box293_check_vmware.pl --server 10.ZZZ.ZZZ.ZZZ --check List_Hosts --debug

After all the output it will display how long it took to run, something like:

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real	0m2.746s
user	0m2.592s
sys	0m0.052s

What does yours output?

Also, a debug log will be produced on the vMA appliance, can you please attach or PM the file:
/home/vi-admin/box293_check_vmware_debug_log.txt

As well as any errors in /var/log/httpd/error_log ON the Nagios XI server.

[maddev]

Hi box293,

ESXi hosts version would be 5.5. Yes I am using the v 2015-05-21

Below is my output of the command

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real    0m16.752s
user    0m11.465s
sys     0m0.340s

PM you the debug file

Nothing on /var/log/httpd/error_log

[tmcdonald]

Could you send the debug to myself as well? It looks like @Box293 is having some connection issues.

[Box293]

I've had a look at the output and it seems the script is not completing and it's not generating any specific errors.

I would like to continue troubleshooting this in a remote support session as I will probably be able to determine what is wrong with my script and your environment.

I'll send you a PM with contact details.

[Box293]

After a remote session we worked out the script was failing because some Hosts did not have any storage adapters and also datastores. Added some if(defined()) statements to work around the problem. Next version of the plugin will include this fix.

[maddev]

Thank you very much Troy.

[tmcdonald]

I'll be closing this thread now, but feel free to open another if you need anything in the future!