Hi everyone!
I have taken over an environment and I am trying to monitor my VMware hosts with Zabbix. I don't need VM discovery. I am looking to monitor the basic cpu, memory, and bandwidth metrics on my Esxi 5.1 host. I have been searching google/forum search for a few days with nothing that seems to address my issue.
Steps I have taken.
1) Opened Zabbix ports on the host firewall. I can curl the Host from my Zabbix box and get what I believe to be the correct response
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 16:23:41 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Type: text; charset=plain
X-Frame-Options: DENY
Content-Length: 0
2) confirmed that I am using the correct username/password/ip for the Host machine. Connected directly to the Esxi host with the same user/pass that I am providing Zabbix.
3) Added the three credentials to my Hosts "macro" page
{$PASSWORD} => <my password>
{$USERNAME} => <my username>
{$URL} => https:/<MY IP>/sdk
4) Applied the "Template Virt VMware" to the configured host entry in Zabbix.
I get the following in my Zabbix_server.conf and see some possible issues.
In substitute_key_macros() data:'vmware.cluster.discovery[{$URL}]'
End of substitute_key_macros():SUCCEED data:'vmware.cluster.discovery[https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk]'
In get_value() key:'vmware.cluster.discovery[{$URL}]'
In get_value_simple() key_orig:'vmware.cluster.discovery[{$URL}]' addr:'<MY IP ADDR>'
In get_vmware_service() 'root'@'https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk'
In zbx_vmware_get_service() root@https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk
End of zbx_vmware_get_service():FAIL
End of get_vmware_service()
nil)
In substitute_key_macros() data:'vmware.hv.discovery[{$URL}]'
End of substitute_key_macros():SUCCEED data:'vmware.hv.discovery[https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk]'
In get_value() key:'vmware.hv.discovery[{$URL}]'
In get_value_simple() key_orig:'vmware.hv.discovery[{$URL}]' addr:'<MY IP ADDR>'
In get_vmware_service() 'root'@'https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk'
In zbx_vmware_get_service() root@https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk
End of zbx_vmware_get_service():FAIL
End of get_vmware_service()nil)
__zbx_zbx_setproctitle() title:'vmware collector #1 [updated 0, removed 0 VMware services in 0.000003 sec, querying VMware services]'
In vmware_service_update() root@https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk
In vmware_service_authenticate() 'root'@'https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk'
End of vmware_service_authenticate():FAIL
In vmware_service_update_perf_entities()
End of vmware_service_update_perf_entities() entities:0
End of vmware_service_update():FAIL
In get_value() key:'vmware.eventlog[{$URL}]'
In get_value_simple() key_orig:'vmware.eventlog[{$URL}]' addr:'<MY IP ADDR>'
In get_vmware_service() 'root'@'https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk'
In zbx_vmware_get_service() root@https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk
End of zbx_vmware_get_service():SUCCEED
End of get_vmware_service()nil)
Item [<MY IP ADDR>:vmware.eventlog[{$URL}]] error: Couldn't resolve host name
In substitute_key_macros() data:'vmware.fullname[{$URL}]'
End of substitute_key_macros():SUCCEED data:'vmware.fullname[https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk]'
1) End of zbx_vmware_get_service():FAIL
I feel like this might be one of two things. My password could be wrong or Zabbix is unable to connect to try and authenticate. This issue is annoying because I can confirm that my user/pass will allow me to connect directly to the host with the esxi client with root permissions, I also cannot see any deny attempts in the /var/logs/ on the host machine. As for connectivity, my curl is returning what people have reported as being a correct response. I also cannot find any logging in vmware to confirm if something was blocked.
2)Item [<MY IP ADDR>:vmware.eventlog[{$URL}]] error: Couldn't resolve host name
I feel like this is probably due to Zabbix running more modern queries against my old Esxi 5.1 machine. Since some do appear to resolve and some do not. Also, it is not using any fqdn (talking directly to the ip instead).
Any thoughts? I have been working on this for a few days and I am seriously annoyed that something so simple is beating me up. (I wish snmp still provided good information).
I have taken over an environment and I am trying to monitor my VMware hosts with Zabbix. I don't need VM discovery. I am looking to monitor the basic cpu, memory, and bandwidth metrics on my Esxi 5.1 host. I have been searching google/forum search for a few days with nothing that seems to address my issue.
Steps I have taken.
1) Opened Zabbix ports on the host firewall. I can curl the Host from my Zabbix box and get what I believe to be the correct response
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 16:23:41 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Type: text; charset=plain
X-Frame-Options: DENY
Content-Length: 0
2) confirmed that I am using the correct username/password/ip for the Host machine. Connected directly to the Esxi host with the same user/pass that I am providing Zabbix.
3) Added the three credentials to my Hosts "macro" page
{$PASSWORD} => <my password>
{$USERNAME} => <my username>
{$URL} => https:/<MY IP>/sdk
4) Applied the "Template Virt VMware" to the configured host entry in Zabbix.
I get the following in my Zabbix_server.conf and see some possible issues.
In substitute_key_macros() data:'vmware.cluster.discovery[{$URL}]'
End of substitute_key_macros():SUCCEED data:'vmware.cluster.discovery[https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk]'
In get_value() key:'vmware.cluster.discovery[{$URL}]'
In get_value_simple() key_orig:'vmware.cluster.discovery[{$URL}]' addr:'<MY IP ADDR>'
In get_vmware_service() 'root'@'https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk'
In zbx_vmware_get_service() root@https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk
End of zbx_vmware_get_service():FAIL
End of get_vmware_service()
nil)In substitute_key_macros() data:'vmware.hv.discovery[{$URL}]'
End of substitute_key_macros():SUCCEED data:'vmware.hv.discovery[https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk]'
In get_value() key:'vmware.hv.discovery[{$URL}]'
In get_value_simple() key_orig:'vmware.hv.discovery[{$URL}]' addr:'<MY IP ADDR>'
In get_vmware_service() 'root'@'https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk'
In zbx_vmware_get_service() root@https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk
End of zbx_vmware_get_service():FAIL
End of get_vmware_service()
nil)__zbx_zbx_setproctitle() title:'vmware collector #1 [updated 0, removed 0 VMware services in 0.000003 sec, querying VMware services]'
In vmware_service_update() root@https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk
In vmware_service_authenticate() 'root'@'https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk'
End of vmware_service_authenticate():FAIL
In vmware_service_update_perf_entities()
End of vmware_service_update_perf_entities() entities:0
End of vmware_service_update():FAIL
In get_value() key:'vmware.eventlog[{$URL}]'
In get_value_simple() key_orig:'vmware.eventlog[{$URL}]' addr:'<MY IP ADDR>'
In get_vmware_service() 'root'@'https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk'
In zbx_vmware_get_service() root@https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk
End of zbx_vmware_get_service():SUCCEED
End of get_vmware_service()
nil)Item [<MY IP ADDR>:vmware.eventlog[{$URL}]] error: Couldn't resolve host name
In substitute_key_macros() data:'vmware.fullname[{$URL}]'
End of substitute_key_macros():SUCCEED data:'vmware.fullname[https:/<MY IP ADDR>/sdk]'
1) End of zbx_vmware_get_service():FAIL
I feel like this might be one of two things. My password could be wrong or Zabbix is unable to connect to try and authenticate. This issue is annoying because I can confirm that my user/pass will allow me to connect directly to the host with the esxi client with root permissions, I also cannot see any deny attempts in the /var/logs/ on the host machine. As for connectivity, my curl is returning what people have reported as being a correct response. I also cannot find any logging in vmware to confirm if something was blocked.
2)Item [<MY IP ADDR>:vmware.eventlog[{$URL}]] error: Couldn't resolve host name
I feel like this is probably due to Zabbix running more modern queries against my old Esxi 5.1 machine. Since some do appear to resolve and some do not. Also, it is not using any fqdn (talking directly to the ip instead).
Any thoughts? I have been working on this for a few days and I am seriously annoyed that something so simple is beating me up. (I wish snmp still provided good information).
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