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How does Nagios XI get data from VMWare and Xenserver?

Does it use the API's?

Thanks.

There may be some plugins that use the APIs, while others use snmp or actual agents.
For Xen plugins: http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... chword=xen
For VMWare/esx plugins: http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... ord=vmware
And: http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... chword=esx

Thank you abrist.

Do you know what the Nagios XI wizard for VMWare uses?

The VMWare wizard that is included with Nagios XI installations uses the check_esx3.pl plugin. This plugin will be already installed on your XI server at the following directory path:

It uses the "check_esx3.pl" plugin.

Thanks for the quick help!

I may've worded my question poorly - does check_esx3.pl utilize the VMWare API to run the checks, or a different method?

I'm not seeing that plugin on Exchange, so didn't see any details there. . .

Yes it does use the VMware API, and that will have to be installed separately due to licensing, along with a few dependencies.

Just what I needed, thanks Nagios team.

Great, best of luck!