Nagios monitor for VMware ESXi (free edition)

[dOE]

I am hoping to monitor some hardware with the HP agents that are pre-built
in the ESXi (free edition) build we are using.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:25 PM, dOE <doepain at gmail.com> wrote:

> From the VMware Infrastructure client under "Health Check" you ca see vital
> hardware health statistics such as processor, memory, hard drives power
> supplies, and fans.  The information is gathered by WBEM, and can be done
> with HP SIM too.  The script is able to poll this information and return the
> values of all of the hardware under one monitor.  That is good enough for me
> because if a memory module goes bad the monitor will go red and prompt us to
> investigate cause.  I am trying to do this with ESX*i* which does not
> support SNMP, not ESX.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:19 PM, James Pratt <jpratt at norwich.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: dOE [mailto:doepain at gmail.com]
>> >> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 12:13 PM
>> >> To: Nagios User-List
>> >> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios monitor for VMware ESXi (free edition)
>> >>
>> >> I have created a monitor using the "check_esxwbem.py", but it returns
>> an "OK" and
>> >> null It is not doing what it is intended to do.
>> >> The script pulls the hardware resources of the host server through
>> WBEM.  I know
>> >> WBEM is working because I am able to pull this information from HP
>> SIM, but I want
>> >> Nagios to be my one stop shop for monitoring.
>>
>> What exactly are you trying to monitor? Raid? I have some snmp stuff for
>> using the HP agents on ESX, but I can't help without more info.
>>
>> Regards,
>> jamie
>>
>>
>
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