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check_esx

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Check CPU, Memory, Network, and VM Status on a VMWare ESX virtual server, via SNMP. Also support for MRTG querying, and listing VMs/interfaces. V2.3 fixes minor problems triggered by the Nagios 2 embedded perl compiler.

Current Version

Last Release Date

June 12, 2009

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Owner

Nagios Exchange

Website

http://www.steveshipway.org/forum/

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Project Files
FileDescription
vmware.nagios

Example Nagios template

vmware-host.nagios

Example Nagios template for VM

vmware.mrtg

Example MRTG template

vmware-host.mrtg

Example MRTG template for VM

check_esx2.2.tar

Full package v2.2

check_esx2.3.tar

Full package v2.3

check_esx2.4.tar

Full package v2.4

check_esx3.0alpha.tar

Full package v3.0alpha

Project Notes
This plugin will work with both Nagios and MRTG. It takes various arguments, so that you can pull out global information or per-VM information. Note that the VMWare SNMP daemon can support reporting on load average and filesystem space - so adding these lines: load 10 10 10 disk / to your /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf will allow these to be reported. This includes example templates for Nagios and MRTG. Use the -h flag to the check_esx plugin for usage syntax. Now also includes vmware_monitor.pl, a utility to run every 5 mins which works with RRDTool to gather data, and dynamically reconfigures MRTG config files which can be passed to any MRTG display utility. Updated to v2.2 to fix a few bugs. Version 2.4 supports ESX 3.x (I think) as well as 2.x Version 3.0alpha properly supports ESX 3.x (where x<5) but is still in testing. This also includes check_vcpu and check_vmem plugins to run under NRPE on Linux and Windows to use new vmware_tools API to check virtual CPU and Memory usage from within the guest. Although this version has passed all testing so far it should not be considered a full release candidate. Version 3.0 developed with the help of Groundwork OpenSource. Thanks guys! Note that ESX3.5 has a lot of problems with this now. A major rewrite is planned.
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