ESXi 4.0 Hardware and Software Monitoring VMWare

[Kryol]

Hi,

I began to migrate the zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl to request centrally the ESX hosts via the VCC, please find below the modified script. Some items are not returned, thanks to terminate if you have the ESX knowledge.

The new syntax is now: zabbix_perl_api_vmware_VCC.pl --server <VCC_Name_or_IP> --username <VCC_user> --password <VCC_password> --vihost <ESX_Host_Name_or_IP>

Thanks,
Alain

I increased Statistic Level of vCenter server to 2 and you script works fine. All items are returned.

But I see another problem with requesing ESXi hosts via VCC. Each request is logged on VCC under Task&Events.
So, events table mostly consist of records about such requests logon/logoff(s). And I can miss any another useful information among these records.

Any suggestions

[edunix]

data of datastore size incorrect

Hi, i implemented ESXi 4.0 Hardware and Software Monitoring VMWare for 7 vmware hosts, on all systems i monitor the datastores, which are mounted by nfs.
On some vmware hosts disk space sizes are not correct:
[root@nlyehvitrdlx005 zabbix]# grep Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3 /tmp/vmware_api_*.txt
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh011.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 154547163136
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh012.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 159808987136
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh013.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 190126780416
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh020.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 189585858560
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh021.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 154592292864
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh022.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 190126768128
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh023.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 164437491712

Any suggestions?

Kind regards, Edunix.

[dima_dm]

Hi, i implemented ESXi 4.0 Hardware and Software Monitoring VMWare for 7 vmware hosts, on all systems i monitor the datastores, which are mounted by nfs.
On some vmware hosts disk space sizes are not correct:
[root@nlyehvitrdlx005 zabbix]# grep Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3 /tmp/vmware_api_*.txt
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh011.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 154547163136
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh012.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 159808987136
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh013.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 190126780416
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh020.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 189585858560
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh021.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 154592292864
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh022.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 190126768128
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh023.txt:Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 164437491712

Any suggestions?

Kind regards, Edunix.

Each disc has an unique ID. Check, that you see same disk on different ESXi

[edunix]

monitoring nfs mounted datastores

Each disc has an unique ID. Check, that you see same disk on different ESXi

Hi Dima, thanks for your reply.
Did check if it is the same disk
Just stating 2 of the 7 systems below, nlyehvitrdvh011. displays correct value, others do not.
~ # hostname
nlyehvitrdvh011.ddns.htc.nl.philips.com
nfs 1.6T 725.9G 874.1G 45% /vmfs/volumes/012b57ad-e99fa8ce
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh011.txt:Volume.Capacity_Bac kup2: 1717986918400
~ # hostname
nlyehvitrdvh021.htc.nl.philips.com
nfs 1.6T 725.9G 874.1G 45% /vmfs/volumes/012b57ad-e99fa8ce
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh021.txt:Volume.Capacity_Bac kup2: 2147483648000

If you want more info, please let me know!

Kind regards,
edunix

[IT_Architect]

Situation: This is on an ESXi installation that has been monitoring hosts for a long time. I just can't get ESXi the monitoring to work. Everything else works perfectly.

Setup:
1. When I ssh in, I can call zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl host password username manually and it works perfectly! (Requires 16 seconds.)

2. Pasted in the API portion into the zabbix_agentd.conf on the server.

3. I imported the template into Zabbix. I removed all of the WBEM items and then when application showed 0, I deleted the WBEM application.

4. I made a new host
a. IP 127.0.0.1
b. Added the template
c. Added the three macros

Problem:
1. I've uploaded a single image that shows the host setup, and the host browse with the ZBX_TCP_READ () failed (54) connection reset by peer. The only data it brings in is icmpping, and that is always successful
2. There are no errors in the server or agent logs on the server

Other:
- Zabbix 1.8.13
- Using ESXi 40 and the 4.0 version of the template

I've gone over the instructions many times. I've read this thread a couple times. I've search and found a couple of instances of people having the same problem. I've restarted the server and agent several times. I've Googled for it. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I tried the 5 version of the API and your newest template. It's the same.

Thanks!

[dima_dm]

Situation:

1) Check Firewall on Zabbix Server
2) Check SELinux policy.
3) Check zabbix_agentd.conf
Server=127.0.0.1
You can test from zabbix server
zabbix_get -s 127.0.0.1 -k API[IP,password,username]

[dima_dm]

Hi
~ # hostname
nlyehvitrdvh011.ddns.htc.nl.philips.com
nfs 1.6T 725.9G 874.1G 45% /vmfs/volumes/012b57ad-e99fa8ce
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh011.txt:Volume.Capacity_Bac kup2: 1717986918400
~ # hostname
nlyehvitrdvh021.htc.nl.philips.com
nfs 1.6T 725.9G 874.1G 45% /vmfs/volumes/012b57ad-e99fa8ce
/tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh021.txt:Volume.Capacity_Bac kup2: 2147483648000

If you want more info, please let me know!

Kind regards,
edunix

1) Do you see in output
grep Volume.Capacity /tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh021.txt
1717986918400 for any disk?
2) In VMware client do you see correct volume size?

[edunix]

data of datastore size incorrect

Hi,

yes, i see data of all datastores:
[root@nlyehvitrdlx005 zabbix]# grep -i volume.capac /tmp/vmware_api_nlyehvitrdvh021.txt
Volume.Capacity_Backup2: 1717986918400
Volume.Capacity_Backup: 161061273600
Volume.Capacity_BU-monodon-1: 2173253451776
Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-3: 154592292864
Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-2: 254234951680
Volume.Capacity_DS-edeni-1: 1099511627776
Volume.Capacity_DS-nlyehvsaq1na001-1: 938543292416
Volume.Capacity_DS-notorious-1: 1515624361984
Volume.Capacity_Local-Datastore-vh021: 141465485312

Yesterday i unmounted the datastore, and remounted it again. The size is now correct on this system.
Could it be that i do not get current data of this API Counter? Might this be a bug in vware ESX 4.1?

Vsphere client shows the correct data on all servers.

kind regards,
Edunix

[dima_dm]

Yesterday i unmounted the datastore, and remounted it again. The size is now correct on this system.
Could it be that i do not get current data of this API Counter? Might this be a bug in vware ESX 4.1?

Vsphere client shows the correct data on all servers.

kind regards,
Edunix

Do you use VMWare vCenter?
You must press Refresh button on Configuration->Storage in VMWare Client, to refresh data about storage volume (for API).
vCenter is renews this counters.

[edunix]

monitoring nfs mounted datastores

Hi Dima,
I do use vceter to manage vmware.
My problem is with monitoring the ESX-I servers directly.
Should i moinitor the datastores on the vcenter server instead?

Kind regards,

Edunix

[jplelievre]

Hi,

I am monitoring my 6 ESXi with the zabbix_perl_api_vmware and that works fine!
But it stops to work since I activated the lockdown mode on in order to use only the vCenter.

Is there anyway to make it working with the lockdown mode activated?

[maplesyrupghost]

Will I be able to get ESXI 5 free monitored this way?

[uweiss]

@maplesyrupghost

Did just that today and works fine.

But for ESXi 5 i had to increase the Timeout value from 20 up to 60 seconds. Don't know why it takes so much longer on ESXi5 yet.

If the script takes over 30 seconds, you also have to adjust the source code of Zabbix a bit to be able to increase the timeout of the agent.

[mamema]

@maplesyrupghost

Did just that today and works fine.

But for ESXi 5 i had to increase the Timeout value from 20 up to 60 seconds. Don't know why it takes so much longer on ESXi5 yet.

If the script takes over 30 seconds, you also have to adjust the source code of Zabbix a bit to be able to increase the timeout of the agent.

can you be more specific what you did, please?

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