Monitoring VMware snapshots

[Muteone]

Hi everyone, I have a custom PowerShell script someone wrote at my work to check for snapshots on VMware vms but I'd like to have this in zabbix, has anyone done this?

Thanks,

[mariusl]

Why don't you use the built in VMWare functionality?

[Muteone]

Why don't you use the built in VMWare functionality?

I am, there's no snapshot items in the templates.

[Jason]

I am, there's no snapshot items in the templates.

How about https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...re.vm.snapshot ?

[Muteone]

I've made a template, struggling to get alerts to ignore Veeam snapshots and only show old snapshots.

[Jason]

Can you parse createtime to a datetime field and get age of that as difference from now?

[Muteone]

Got something working, I wanted multiple items in the trigger expression so I could show them in operational data.
The main issue I was having was trying to filter out Veeam snapshots, this is done on the master item now as an exclusion array.
The second issue was the time needing to be converted to epoch
There was a final issue of alerts not resolving as the values became empty when the snapshot was removed so I had to add values on JSON lookup failure.

Still some fine tuning to do.
I just linked this to the existing vmware guest template

EDIT: Code deleted to avoid perma ban.

[Jason]

If you use a discovery based on the JSON string from snapshot.get (do the discovery and items based on dependent items) then it should work and auto clear items when then the snapshots go. Then it should be fairly easy to filter out the snapshot names to remove the veeam ones.

[k-hole]

https://github.com/a-stoyanov/zabbix-vmware-snapshot