Problem with template "Template Virt VMware Hypervisor"

[basti23]

Hello

somehow zabbix is not polling data from my esx host, would be glad if someone can help me on this issue.

i added one host with following settings:

SNMP interfaces 172.16.252.2 (ESXi IP)
Templates Template Virt VMware Hypervisor
Macro {$PASSWORD} = *password*
Macro {$URL} HTTPS://172.16.252.2/sdk
Macro {$USERNAME} root

zabbix_server.conf looks like following:

StartVMwareCollectors=10
VMwareFrequency=60
VMwarePerfFrequency=60
VMwareCacheSize=8M
VMwareTimeout=10

on ESX host i can see that zabbix is logging in:

user [email protected] logged in

after a few seconds (~30) "root" logs out again with message

Amount of API-Calls:0, User-agent"

no data is polled to zabbix. Anyone an idea what the issue here is?

thanks

[Atsushi]

Please check the log of Zabbix server.

The template to be linked to ESXi is "Template Virt VMware",
not "Template Virt VMware Hypervisor".

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.0/manual/vm_monitoring#ready-to-use_templates

[basti23]

Thanks for your reply!

Isnt it possible to link the "Template Virt VMware Hypervisor" directly to a manually created host?

I create a host !DE-SRV-ESX02! and linked "Template Virt VMware" to this host. After a while, "Discover VMware hypervisors" creates a new host called "DE-SRV-ESX02.contonso.com" and links "Template Virt VMware Hypervisor",this one receives data well.

But i dont want to have 2 host-enties for the same host, furthermore i cant change anything on the discovered host. Am i doing anything wrong? Is there another way to monitor ESXi resources without using auto-discovery? Or at least is there a chance to discover hosts without creating first a dummy host (to avoid redundancy)?

Thanks in advance for your help!