CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds

[jyoti22]

I have configured vMA and vCenter as per doc "box293_check_vmware manual"
I have added few hosts also in monitoring successfully. However when doing it after some time I got below error

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[nagios@NagiosXI libexec]$ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_by_ssh -E 1 -l vi-admin -H 10.xx.xx.xx -C "~/box293_check_vmware.pl --server xx.xx.xx.xx --check vCenter_Name_Version"
CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds
[nagios@NagiosXI libexec]$

I did not made any changes still this error occurred. Please help me to resolve it

[Box293]

Hey that looks like something that belongs to me

How many CPU's and how much memory does your vMA have?

Please refer to page 6 and 72 of the manual.

[jyoti22]

vMA was built with default values as
600 MB memory and 1 CPU
I guess this is the reason of error. Please let me know what can be memory and CPU configuration needed if I add more than 70 ESXi hosts on vMA
Thanks.

[tgriep]

In the manual, this is what is recommended for the CPU and memory requirements.

I recommended the vMA has 2 CPUs and 2GB Memory at a minimum.

[Box293]

I would suggest 4-8 CPUs and at least 8GB RAM.

Page 72 of the manual shows how to check how much memory is being used.

[jyoti22]

Thanks a lot!. After adding CPU and memory, ESXi working fine Now.

[hsmith]

Hi jyoti22,

Are we all right to close this one up and mark it resolved?

[jyoti22]

Yes. It can be closed. before that I have one question on ESXi. I have few servers which are not part of vCenter. Please advice how can I add those ESXi servers in Nagios.

[tgriep]

If you can't add those server to your existing vCenter server, you can use the standard VMWare wizard as long as you know the username and password for them.

[Box293]

The box293_check_vmware plugin works directly against ESXi servers as well. Just put the ESXi host address in the --server argument.

This is explained in the manual.