VMWare monitoring in 2.2.0 form Ubuntu apt install

[thysk]

Hi all

I have upgraded my installation to 2.2 but it was originally installed from the zabbix apt repository.

I see I need to run
./configure --with-libxml2 --with-libcurl

But I have no idea how to do this if I installed from the apt repo.

Can anybody advise how to get it working ?

[neogan]

But why do you think you need to do following?

./configure --with-libxml2 --with-libcurl

It's not possible with apt.
Anyway packages which you installed from zabbix apt repo is compiled with those options.

[thysk]

Ahaaa ! Thanks for the info.... must be something else wrong with my setup, let me do some digging.

Thanks

[tchjts1]

Are you trying to do VMWare low level discovery?
If so, did your upgrade process give you the 3 VMWare Templates?
And did you set the VMWare Collectors parameter in zabbix_server.conf?
By default, it is zero. It needs to be at least 1.

### Option: StartVMwareCollectors
# Number of pre-forked vmware collector instances.
#
# Mandatory: no
# Range: 0-250
# Default:
# StartVMwareCollectors=0
StartVMwareCollectors=10

[thysk]

Thanks, I found that setting in the manual last night and enabled it. its collecting information now but it seems minimal. I will need to just recheck my templates and make sure they are the correct ones.

[mcdougak]

If so, did your upgrade process give you the 3 VMWare Templates?

Where would I get these templates from?

I just upgraded to 2.2 and want to do the low level discovery. I did manually create an entry for the collectors as suggested.

Thanks!

[mcdougak]

Where would I get these templates from?

I just upgraded to 2.2 and want to do the low level discovery. I did manually create an entry for the collectors as suggested.

Thanks!

I found them after some additional searching here: https://www.zabbix.org/wiki/Zabbix_T...s#Zabbix_2.2.0

[tchjts1]

Read the notes before you install these. has to be done in a certain order:

https://www.zabbix.org/wiki/Zabbix_Templates/Official_Templates#Zabbix_2.2.0

[mcdougak]

now i have errors !

When I try to import the templates I get this ...

Cannot find value map "VMware VirtualMachinePowerState" used for item "Power state" on "Template Virt VMware Guest".

Any suggestions ?

[tchjts1]

Did you follow this note?

Note: Template Virt VMware should be imported after the other VMware templates, otherwise it will fail with mysterious message.

[mcdougak]

tried all different orders

Did you follow this note?

Note: Template Virt VMware should be imported after the other VMware templates, otherwise it will fail with mysterious message.

Yes I actually tried the tree in all different orders but each returns an error and the import fails.

[mcdougak]

Yes I actually tried the tree in all different orders but each returns an error and the import fails.

This is just a test environment that I upgraded from 2.0 so I might just spend the time and create a 2.2 installation from scratch.

[tchjts1]

Yeah, I am not sure why else it would fail. I don't recall seeing other reports of that issue.

[mcdougak]

Yeah, I am not sure why else it would fail. I don't recall seeing other reports of that issue.

If I did them in the incorrect order originally ... not sure what order I first tried ... would I just be able to change the order or would I have to go in and 'fix' something ?

[tchjts1]

I am guessing that simply deleting all 3 of them, then importing in the correct order would do the trick.