Not supported items on VMware Monitoring with discovery

[ira]

Hi all,

we have Zabbix 2.2.4 on Debian Wheezy.

For a week we use the VMware Monitoring with the 3 Templates in the way it is described hier (https://www.zabbix.com/documentation.../vm_monitoring).

Unfortunately we have a lot of unsupported items (240).
The most of it were from Template Virt VMware Guest, Discovery, Disk device discovery. The values weren't very important to our monitoring crew, so we deleted the discovery rule for disk device discovery.

Now we have 180 unsupported items. How can we find out which they are?
In the normal case, we checked the items table like this:

select * from zabbix.items where status=3;

It gives now an empty set, so the unsupported items from the discovery should be somewhere else then the "normal" one. Somebody knows where?

By coincidence we found that for example some of the Network device discovery Number of bytes received on interface 4000 vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$URL},{HOST.HOST},4000,bps] is not supported.

The error: "Performance counter is not available".

What does that mean and how could we repair it?!
It did discovered that item at first or no? and now it is not supported!? Some help or link to more information should be great!
Our search in the internet didn't provide any useful informations, the most is about windows hosts but we have there a linux host...

Regards,
Ira

[ingus.vilnis]

Now we have 180 unsupported items. How can we find out which they are?
In the normal case, we checked the items table like this:

select * from zabbix.items where status=3;

Hi Ira,

SELECT * FROM zabbix.items WHERE state=1;

state=0 - normal
state=1 - not supported

FYI
status=0 - active
status=1 - disabled

Best Regards,
Ingus

[ira]

Thanks Ingus! That is what I looked for

For all other user, this is the query which I used:
select items.hostid, hosts.name, items.name, items.error from items, hosts where items.hostid=hosts.hostid and items.state=1 and items.status=0 and hosts.status=0;

[ira]

Our statistic shows that the most not supported items are:

| 10429 | ipv6-test | Number of bytes received on interface $3 | Performance counter is not available. |
| 10429 | ipv6-test | Number of packets received on interface $3 | Performance counter is not available. |
or

| 10385 | esx | Average write latency of the datastore $3 | Performance counter is not available. |
| 10385 | esx | Average write latency of the datastore $3 | Performance counter is not available. |
| 10385 | esx | Average write latency of the datastore $3 | Performance counter is not available. |



Still don't have any idea why