Administering a VMWare Appliance?

[newbietozabbix67]

Hi there. First post, and what I'm sure is a simple question. I have set up Zabbix 3.4 on a CentOS 7 virtual machine, and it's working nicely. I'm monitoring twelve VMs, a mixture of CentOS 6 and 7. I now want to monitor the actual appliance, which is running..

appliance:~ # cat /etc/*-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11
PATCHLEVEL = 2

I have absolutely no idea how to install the agent on that server. Can someone help me?

Many thanks.

[pransakti]

this

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.0/manual/installation/install_from_packages/agent_installation

[newbietozabbix67]

appliance:~ # apt-get install zabbix-agent
-bash: apt-get: command not found

[pransakti]

appliance:~ # apt-get install zabbix-agent
-bash: apt-get: command not found

didn't you use the CentOS one?
apt-get is defined for ubuntu.

instead use

 
 # yum install zabbix-agent

[DmitryL]

You say that it is Centos, but from uname it says SLES.
Zabbix does not maintain SLES repo, and official Zabbix appliance is based on Ubuntu.

[newbietozabbix67]

No, I said that the zabbix server was CentOS. My question was: how do I now monitor the VSphere appliance, which is running SUSE? As per the code excerpt in my original post.

[ffavre]

Do you tried this : https://zigmund.kz/2016/01/vmware-vc...-zabbix-agent/

[newbietozabbix67]

That takes me to a page in Russian, which I don't speak. :-|