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Nagios Monitoring of VMware ESX servers

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This project provides techniques and solutions to use the nsca add-on to monitor a wide-area, multi-host ESX environment from a central location. Monitored resources include CPU load, memory and filesystem utilization, and VM operating states. Monitoring options are configurable to address response times and frequency of information updates.

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Last Release Date

September 17, 2011

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Nagios Exchange

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Nagios_VMware.zip

WinZip file containing documentation and scripts; password is nagios

Project Notes
Technical design uses the VMware command line interface (vCLI) to provide first-level Nagios monitoring and diagnosis; editable control files to specify hosts and services for monitoring; and Perl scripts that may be modified for local conditions. As of the publication date, these scripts are in production in one environment with ESX 4.0, 3.5, and 3.0; some modification may be required for other environments. Please read the documentation before attempting to install or operate the scripts. Use of these materials assumes a working knowledge of Linux and Perl, as well as VMware ESX. Documentation and scripts are supplied in a WinZip file with password nagios (lower case). If you have problems after carefully following the installation procedures, contact me by email and I will try to assist.
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by haavaste, March 31, 2013

Hello, I am trying to setup Monitoring to my ESX hosts. I am a bit puzzled with getting it work. The thing is that I am able to run resxtop from my nagios machine and configured pl and sh files accordingly. But when it comes to configuration file I am doomed: VMware ESX hosts to monitor with Nagios nsca #Tab delimited, # in col 1 to skip schedules for 3 options #ESX Host Name Root Password CPU/Mem FileSys VMcount #------------- ---- -------- ------- ------- ------- esx-c01 root password test When I run command: root@nagios:/opt/nsca# ./nsca_vmware.pl ESX_Hosts Outcome would be: Starting execution of ./nsca_vmware.pl v1.2.1 at 2013-03-18 18:12:06 ... schedule is ESX_Hosts ./nsca_vmware.pl took 0 seconds How can I debug what went wrong? With best, Hannes


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