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VCSA Appliance monitoring

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 4:35 pm
by jyoti22
I have 1 Suse 11 VCSA appliance which needs to add in Nagios Monitoring.
Can vMA monitors a VCSA appliance using "box293_check_vmware" plugin? If not, then how can VCSA appliance can get monitored?

Re: VCSA Appliance monitoring

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 8:50 pm
by Box293
I do a lot of testing against a vCenter Appliance (v 5.x) however v 6 should be no different. The plugin will work with a vCenter Appliance or vCenter installed on a Windows Server.

Generally speaking the appliance is just a VM, so monitoring it with the plugin should be just like any other VM.

Here's my production vCenter Appliance:
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Does this answer your question?

Re: VCSA Appliance monitoring

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 7:46 pm
by jyoti22
ok.. i'll try to monitor it as like esxi. Thanks

Re: VCSA Appliance monitoring

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:08 pm
by hsmith
Let us know what you come up with. Thanks!

Re: VCSA Appliance monitoring

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 1:16 pm
by jyoti22
Hi Hsmith,
I have used the same steps as ESXi for VSCA appliance.
1. Created local account on server
2. Then from vMA server added the credentials entry to credential store successfully
3.Tested plugin

While plugin test I got below error

vi-admin@vMA server:~> ~/box293_check_vmware.pl --server <VSCA> --check Host_OS_Name_Version
Error connecting to server at 'https://<VSCA>/sdk/webService': Connection refused

Please advice. Thanks.

Re: VCSA Appliance monitoring

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 2:39 pm
by tgriep
Did you type in the full command like below?

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_by_ssh -E 1 -l vi-admin -H 192.168.1.231 -C "~/box293_check_vmware.pl --server 192.168.1.211 --check vCenter_Name_Version"

Re: VCSA Appliance monitoring

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 2:52 pm
by jyoti22
I am trying to test the connectivity from vMA host first. It is not happening. SO no use to check it from XI server

Re: VCSA Appliance monitoring

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 2:59 pm
by hsmith
Are you even able to ping the vMA host?

Re: VCSA Appliance monitoring

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 3:11 pm
by jyoti22
yes. I can ping vMA host from XI

Re: VCSA Appliance monitoring

Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 8:00 pm
by Box293
jyoti22 wrote:1. Created local account on server
Using this account you created, can you login to the vSphere client using this account? If you cannot do this then the plugin is not going to work.