Problem monitoring vmware server

[dimir]

You only need to create a single host for esxi host and link template VMware to it. Everything else should be created automatically. Do not create the hypervisor hosts manually.

[vmiro]

Old thread but this is not working for me.

I am still getting the unknown hypervisor UUID after confirming I have the correct Hypervisor UUID, username, password, URL.



SDK soap is running (on by default)
https://SERVERIP/sdk/vimService.wsdl


{$VMWARE.HV.UUID} is correct.

UUID is same both from esxcfg-info -u |awk '{print tolower($0)}'
and web (https://SERVERIP/mob/?moid=ha-host&d...are.systemInfo)





I have waited 24 hours.
I have tried removing the template and re-adding.
Tried with the VMware template, tried setting the variable as {$VMWARE.UUID} or {$VMWARE.VM.UUID}

Tried this on 3 hypervisors.
One esx 5.5 and 2 on 6.5.

Tried with both read-only accounts and ESX root account.

/etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf:
StartVMwareCollectors=5
VMwareCacheSize=64M


any thoughts or suggestions?

Hi, I have exactly the same problem. Tried with different ESXi hosts and versions. I'm using only one "VMWare" template for ESXi host. Zabbix discover only datastore and nothing elase.
I'm using a proxy with zabbix server. ESXi hosts are accessed via proxy. I set config files (on both server and proxy) for the VMWare related options as suggested.
I tried increasing a log verbosity on proxy, and I see it reads some data from hosts related to VMs. I have more hosts monitored with this proxy and have no problem retrieving data.
But, nothing is shown on Zabbix server except four items for datastore.
I have MACROs defined. Tried with UUID macro and without...

Zabbix version is 6.0.9.

What am I doing wrong ?

Thanks