Hi Team,
We have a requirement to install Nagios client on ESXi host. Just want to confirm is it necessary to deploy VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) on ESXi server. With out vMA can we install Nagios client on ESXi host. Please suggest.
About ESXi host monitoring
Re: About ESXi host monitoring
Here's some information about monitoring ESXI hosts -
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf
If you follow those steps it should work fine. Have you seen that document already?
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf
If you follow those steps it should work fine. Have you seen that document already?
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Re: About ESXi host monitoring
The ESXi servers don't need anything installed on them.
My box293_check_vmware plugin uses a vMA appliance to offload the checks as the VMware SDK is pretty resource intensive.
box293_check_vmware can be downloaded here:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... re/details
There is also a wizard for it:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Ad ... rd/details
My box293_check_vmware plugin uses a vMA appliance to offload the checks as the VMware SDK is pretty resource intensive.
box293_check_vmware can be downloaded here:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... re/details
There is also a wizard for it:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Ad ... rd/details
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Re: About ESXi host monitoring
Thank you Box293. We are able to monitor ESXi hosts using vMA plugin.