Where to get vMA appliance

[dlukinski]

Hello XI Support

I am going over "Nagios Plugin to monitor VMware Virtualization" by Box293 documentation.

Can't seem to find vMA appliance download?
- is this a VMWARE or Hyper-V appliance
- is this a Linux OS + some configurations?

Thanks,
Dimitri

[bwallace]

Hi Dimitri, this link addresses your questions and XI downloads are found here as well:

https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/

[BanditBBS]

i think he may be talking about this https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/detail ... oup=VMA550

[rkennedy]

Thanks @BanditBBS. @dlukinski can you provide clarification of what you're looking for if either of those is not it?

[jolson]

To answer a few of your standing questions:

is this a VMWARE or Hyper-V appliance

This appliance is capable of being run in both VMWare and Hyper-V systems, though it will only interact with the VMWare API - therefore it can only be used to monitor VMWare.

is this a Linux OS + some configurations?

The vMA appliance is running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 with some custom VMWare software built-in. More information can be found here: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic ... _guide.pdf

[dlukinski]

To answer a few of your standing questions:

is this a VMWARE or Hyper-V appliance

This appliance is capable of being run in both VMWare and Hyper-V systems, though it will only interact with the VMWare API - therefore it can only be used to monitor VMWare.

is this a Linux OS + some configurations?

The vMA appliance is running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 with some custom VMWare software built-in. More information can be found here: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic ... _guide.pdf

Thank you, this is what I could not figure. This could be closed now.

[bwallace]

Glad to help, and thanks to all who contributed. I'll go ahead and lock this one down now.