Virtual machine monitoring

[elikatz79]

Hey all,
We are trying to use this mechanism to monitor our esxi5.5 servers (Zabbix 3.2.6 on CentOS7).
In the documentation it says:
For virtual machine monitoring to work, Zabbix should be compiled with the --with-libxml2 and --with-libcurl compilation options.

We installed from repo's - is there a way to make sure it will work if the installation is from repo and not from source?
Thanks!

[Atsushi]

If you installed from yum repository of Zabbix LLC, monitoring of VMware is possible.

Please check the log of the Zabbix server at startup.

 17435:20170608:110851.307 VMware monitoring:         YES

Also, if you want to monitor VMware,
please set the value of StartVMwareCollectors in zabbix_server.conf and start it.

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.2/manual/vm_monitoring

[elikatz79]

Thanks! one more question regarding that template

The discovery works great but we noticed that there are no triggers created, only items - any idea if we missed something?

[Atsushi]

Check the setting contents of the template.

I think that the trigger was not set in the template prepared by default.
Please refine the template according to the person you want to monitor what you want, or create a new one.