VMware ESXi 6.0 monitoring

[ilfox]

Hi,
I am quite new to Zabbix but i have managed to find nearly all my answers in documentation and forums. Currently i am in a testing mode to see if Zabbix fits my needs - and it does more than what i initially needed / expected. Thanks for that, Zabbix devs!
All the hosts i set up untill now are monitored perfectly. I had some itches and scratched them untill they worked.

I am having issues though - and i have tried about anything i could find in docs and forums.

I am running the appliance version of Zabbix 3.0 on Ubuntu server.

So i need to monitor a single instance of a VMware ESXi 6.0 server.

I've set up 4 different hosts pointing to the ESXi server - all with different tempates linked to it.

-I tried to install the Zabbix agent on it - failed due to no /proc/stat available on it. Found that in the forums as well...

-I set up SNMP on the ESXi host. The "Template SNMP OS ESXi" collects no data and no graphs become available (Allthough the "Template SNMP OS Linux" gathers datastore data an available RAM - so in some sort of way SNMP collection seems to work.

- The host linked to the "Template virt vmware" has the right macros set up: $URL,$USER and $PASSWORD. All discovery rules and Items in the host show "Not Supported"

-In the 'Template virt VMware hypervisor" template i changed all (HOST.HOST) entry's to $UUID as found in the forums, but same problem: Items show "Not Supportded". The error message shows "Cannot login due to an incorrect user name or password"
I am sure that the $USER and $PASSWORD macros are correct in the host's configuration. I firts tried root as a user to connect to my ESXi host, which had the same problem - so i figured maybe the problem could be that my ESXi host refuses root acces through the sdk url, but I created a new user/password comination and it still doesn't work.
FYI: between every change i rebooted the server, just to make sure...

The zabbix-server.log shown no errors, though.

What am I missing out here??? is there someone who might push me in the right direction?

Tia,

Stefferd

How are you monitoring the physical hosts please?

[Crowley]

Hello,

Sorry to digging up the topic but I'm struggling with the discover of my hypervisors.
The discover works well but it doesn't discover the IP or DNS name. In "Agent Interfaces" I only have the SNMP interface of my dummy host. I would like to have also the IP or DNS of my discovered hypervisor.

Is that possible ?

Thanks

[jluvs2ride]

Does this work for the free version of VM Ware?

[norola]

Hello!!
did anybody get an zabbix agent for esxi 6.0 .
i really need it
thank you in advence !!!

[shilpab]

Hello,
I was trying to discover and monitor the vmware ESXI 6.5.
Once i add the macros including username, password, url, uuid, the items are enabled.
But after sometime the items status changes to " The session is not authenticated".
What can be the reason for this?