ESXi 4.0 Hardware and Software Monitoring VMWare

[dima_dm]

Hi,

i have another way to do it. but i don't know how to integer to zabbix.
the value with esxtop are much more important.

so it possible to export them to csv file. now i search mean to import this cvs file on my zabbix. but i don't found the mean.

anybody can help me ?

You can convert cvs in zabbix_sender format, and use zabbix_sender. http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/.../zabbix_sender
And use Zabbix API to create Items, triggers and graphs.

[dima_dm]

Sorry, I don't testing this on Zabbix 2.0. I only plan migration Zabbix 1.8-> 2.0 on my systems. After migration this problem will be fixed.

I don't see any problem on Zabbix 2.0.3.

[boxrick]

I have what I believe is a simple problem which unfortunately I cannot solve due to lack of knowledge....

Simply put I have a fresh version of Zabbix installed. I am using ESXI 5.0 Free and have configured SNMP using the following guide:

http://www.tumfatig.net/20120224/enable-and-configure-snmp-on-vmware-esxi-5/

I can use SNMPWalk to poll the server from a different system and this appears to work OK.

Simply put I wish to monitor the ESXI HOST system for things like CPU / Hard drive / Memory and network usage. Rather simple SNMP based for the physical system.

Can someone guide in the right direction for a template which would work for this or a provide me with a quick guide which would help. Everything around seems to be trying to accomplish something much more complicated than I actually need...

[duncankennedy]

What kind of hardware do you use and which version of ESXi?

[boxrick]

EXSI is 5.0 free version and it is currently on a HP DL360 G5, but will be on a DL380 gen8.

[lioxa_zab]

Zabbix agent not creating /tmp/vmware_api_172.x.x.x.txt file from the daemon mode. I can see in zabbix_agentd log file that command is running, no errors orrus. And if I run the same command from command prompt it's creating /tmp/vmware_api_172.x.x.x.txt as suppose.

Zabbix version 2.0.3

31999:20121106:142818.931 Processing request.
31999:20121106:142818.931 Requested [API[172.x.x.x,password,user]]
31999:20121106:142818.931 In zbx_popen() command:'/etc/zabbix/zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl 172.x.x.x password user'
2996:20121106:142818.931 zbx_popen(): executing script
31999:20121106:142818.946 End of zbx_popen():6

[dima_dm]

Check permitions on files /tmp/vmware_api_172.x.x.x.txt.

[lioxa_zab]

permissions is OK , now zabbix agent running as root , so it should not be a problem. Is it possible that script running to long and zabbix_agent killing it ? because of Timeout is not enough ?

time /etc/zabbix/zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl 172.x.x.x password user
0

real 0m36.783s
user 0m22.756s
sys 0m0.205s

[dima_dm]

permissions is OK , now zabbix agent running as root , so it should not be a problem. Is it possible that script running to long and zabbix_agent killing it ? because of Timeout is not enough ?

time /etc/zabbix/zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl 172.x.x.x password user
0

real 0m36.783s
user 0m22.756s
sys 0m0.205s

You can change Timeout for zabbix_server and zabbix_agent.

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showpost.php?p=92965&postcount=93

[lioxa_zab]

I did recompile zabbix_agentd and zabbix_sever files. Now vmware checks running fine.



Спасибо за помощь.

[lioxa_zab]

I have 20 vmware servers , all except one working fine. When I'm running /etc/zabbix/zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl script I'm getting reply "1" user and password is correct, what can be wrong ?

[dima_dm]

/etc/zabbix/zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl

my $retval =Vim::login(service_url => $service_url, user_name => $username, password => $password);
      };
      if ($@)
        {
          if ($@ =~ /incorrect user name or password/) {
            $error_code=3;
         } else {
           $error_code=1;
          [B]print "test ".$@;[/B]
         }
       }

Add print to see detail.

[TTTstu]

I have 20 vmware servers , all except one working fine. When I'm running /etc/zabbix/zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl script I'm getting reply "1" user and password is correct, what can be wrong ?

Hi, not sure if you still have this problem, but I just had this. It turned out to be Perl being fussy about the SSL verification. From a KB on VMware:

When you run a vicfg-vCLI command, an error like the following might result.
Server version unavailable at 'https://<server>/sdk/vimService.wsdl' at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/VMware/VICommon.pm line 545

Workaround: Follow these steps to resolve the issue:

• Make sure the version of the LWP::UserAgent Perl module is above 6.0.4.
• Turn off host name verification by running the following command:
• export PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0

For me it was the export that fixed it. Hope that helps.

[gavind]

It turned out to be Perl being fussy about the SSL verification.

Thanks. Indeed it is. I just duplicated this issue and it was the SSL verfication.

[magajna]

OK, i have read almost all of this post, now i have some questions...

I have ESXi 5.1u1(free edition), will the scripts posted here work?

I also don't have HP environment, can the agents from hp be install on our Intel environment to work this scripts?

In ESXi 5.1 you have SNMP capabilities, but it will only show you your hardware, can you somehow get used recourse true CIM?

How to put all of this into zabbix?


My sistems:
Intel SC5299WS
3ware RAID 9650sa
ESXi 5.1u1(prod. build 1065491)

Tnx for all the answers