My current infrastructure budget does not allow for vSphere Server, ESXi 4.1 Enterprise, or OpsView Enterprise. They all have one thing in common: they’re more than $0. OK, I know OpsView comes in a community flavor, but still. ESXi hypervisor 4.1 is also free.<\/p>\n
So originally I was going to just run SNMP monitoring through Nagios, but I found out that I needed to enable ESXi’s SNMP before I could attempt that. Long story short, ESXi’s SNMP is not worth monitoring. CIM, the supported protocol from VMWare, apparently is the route I needed to go.<\/p>\n
So I found this site:
\nhttp:\/\/www.matthewjwhite.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/02\/09\/monitoring-esxi-server-health-using-nagiosopsview\/
\nWhich gave me the direction I needed.<\/p>\n
Log onto your Nagios Server: Check by running the following: define command{ And the check as defined for one of my ESXi servers<\/p>\n define service{ Verify it’s working after the check, you should have the green bar saying OK.<\/p>\n I had to edit a little bit as the previous script did not function through nagios although it did work via the command line. Nagios merely reported everything as OK even though I had errors reported on the CLI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My current infrastructure budget does not allow for vSphere Server, ESXi 4.1 Enterprise, or OpsView Enterprise. They all have one thing in common: they’re more than $0. OK, I know OpsView comes in a community flavor, but still. ESXi hypervisor 4.1 is also free. So originally I was going to just run SNMP monitoring through … Continue reading ESXi Monitoring via Nagios<\/span>
\napt-get install python-pywbem<\/code>
\ncd \/usr\/local\/nagios\/libexec<\/code>
\nwget http:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/servlet\/JiveServlet\/downloadBody\/7170-102-7-4233\/check_esx_wbem.py<\/del><\/code>
\nwget http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/utilities\/check_esxi_hardware.py<\/code>
\nchmod +x check_esxi_hardware.py<\/code><\/p>\n
\n.\/check_esxi_hardware.py IPOFYOURESXISERVER root password VENDOR<\/code>
\nYou should receive a simple “OK” to verify everything is working<\/p>\n
\n command_name check_esxi_hardware
\n command_line $USER1$\/check_esxi_hardware.py -H $HOSTADDRESS -U $ARG1$ -P $ARG2$ -V $ARG3$
\n }<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n use generic-service
\n host_name esx01
\n service_description ESXi Hardware Monitor
\n check_command check_esxi_hardware!readonlyuser!somepassword!dell
\n }<\/p><\/blockquote>\n