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NagiosXI - Excessive Nagios Logins to VMware ESXi Hosts

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:12 am
by Pselvin
Hi There,

I would need your assistance to change the polling interval on Nagios for vCenter. I have set the Nagios to check every 15 minutes in the service check but, vCenter logs nearly 1,500 "logged in" events from Nagios every HOUR. That's approximately 27 login events per server per server. Nagios is still checking server every 2 minutes. Thousands of alerts per hour makes it impossible to review logs and/or troubleshoot actual issues on these hosts.

Could you please assist to advise to adjust this check interval.

Re: NagiosXI - Excessive Nagios Logins to VMware ESXi Hosts

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:18 am
by scottwilkerson
How many different services in total do you have setup checking these servers?

For example are you polling individual VM's for data? If so, include all of them in the total.

Re: NagiosXI - Excessive Nagios Logins to VMware ESXi Hosts

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:31 am
by Pselvin
Great! Thank you Scott for your input.

Appreciate it.

Re: NagiosXI - Excessive Nagios Logins to VMware ESXi Hosts

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 10:15 am
by scottwilkerson
Pselvin wrote:Great! Thank you Scott for your input.

Appreciate it.
Let us know if we can be of further assistance

Re: NagiosXI - Excessive Nagios Logins to VMware ESXi Hosts

Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 7:53 am
by Pselvin
We are looking for a way to Monitor the ESXi through vCenter. Please let me know the best way to do the same, We are currently using PERL script
check_esx3.plĀ 

Re: NagiosXI - Excessive Nagios Logins to VMware ESXi Hosts

Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 11:48 am
by scottwilkerson
Pselvin wrote:We are looking for a way to Monitor the ESXi through vCenter. Please let me know the best way to do the same, We are currently using PERL script
The best way is to use the VMware wizard in Nagios XI