Install Zabbix Agent on VMware ESXi 5.5.0 GA

[jaipagare]

Hello All,

I need help installing zabbix agent on VMware ESXi 5.5.0 GA. I searched Zabbix and VMware forums as well as googled it; but unfortunately didn't found much help.

Is there some out who installed zabbix agent on VMware ESXi 5.5.0 GA?

[tatapoum]

Why would you do that? The idea of ESXi is to have a minimal OS.
Zabbix 2.2 adds the agentless monitoring of the VMs and hypervisors using the VMware API. Or you can use WBEM to monitor your ESXis. All you need si to install the WBEM provider for ESXi of your server's manufacturer. Last, you can use IPMI to do that.

[rootus]

Hello All,

I need help installing zabbix agent on VMware ESXi 5.5.0 GA. I searched Zabbix and VMware forums as well as googled it; but unfortunately didn't found much help.

Is there some out who installed zabbix agent on VMware ESXi 5.5.0 GA?

Just enable snmp and monitor that.

[steveboyson]

SNMP in vSphere 5.x is of not much use anymore. They nearly abandoned it in favour of WBEM. All you get is some info about the running VMs but few to nothing regarding your ESX hosts.

OID is .1.3.6.1.4.1.6876

Do a bulk snmpwalk from there and see yourself ...

[gavind]

You might want to start with SNMPv2 before v3 here.