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Hi,

I would like to performance an ESXi hard drive test. I would like get the following data:
STATUS, POWER SUPLY, Usage, etc.

There is no data storage connected to the ESXi.

Thank you in advance.

Have you investigated the box293_check_vmware plugin? It's quite comprehensive:
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... re/details

I'm not certain if it will return specific power information for disks, but it does return some performance metrics.

This plugin doesn't work on Nagios box, but on ESXi server. Is there a one which is a Nagios addon and do not requires ESXi installation ?

It does work on the Nagios machine, however in order to poll for data you must install pre-reqs on the ESX machine.

As for what you're after, this sounds like it might be possible if your hardware vendor supports SNMP at a hardware / remote access layer since it doesn't pertain to VMware.

Is there a plugin which doesn't require VMware installation ?

There is not. The exception is what I mentioned above -

Hey,

After a brief review I understood that, the plugin must be installed on vMa and then it gets data through vCenter. Is it optional to use it directly between Nagios and VmWare ESXi ?

You could do that, but it's really really not recommended to run the vMa server on the same machine as Nagios XI. You'll, at a bare minimum, take a huge performance hit. At worst, you could create a situation with conflicting Perl modules.

I won't use it in my scenario than. Is there a possibility to install NRPE++ client on the ESXi server ? It could get the service information that I would really need.

You would probably have better luck using NCPA since basically it's only dependency is python and can run active or passive checks on behalf of your Nagios install.

https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help.php
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/ncp ... g_NCPA.pdf
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf