Nagios monitor for VMware Tools functionality?

[forrie]

We've been having an issue with VMs and VMware tools not running (for various reasons), which causes instability and goes frequently unnoticed until the systems are used.

I am looking for a way, via Nagios, to monitor the presence of a running vmware tools. I know you can do a dump process scan, but I wonder if there is something more specific that will return a result from Vmware tools that might indicate it's running status?


Thanks!

[agriffin]

VMware's programming API documentation is located here, and there seems to be a function to wait for VMware tools to start in the guest.