VMWare ESXi v5.x and Zabbix agent

[miovel]

Hello,

I need to know if there is someone who already tried monitor VMWare ESXi v5.x host usign Zabbix agent. I already use monitoring of ESX 4.x with Zabbix agent without any problem.

On ESXi v5.x is missing /proc/stat and if i try run Zabbix agent (v1.8.5, v2.0) i got following:

the processes are running:

ps | grep -i zabbix

79515 79515 zabbix_agentd        ./zabbix_agentd
79516 79516 zabbix_agentd        ./zabbix_agentd
79517 79517 zabbix_agentd        ./zabbix_agentd
79518 79518 zabbix_agentd        ./zabbix_agentd
79519 79519 zabbix_agentd        ./zabbix_agentd
79520 79520 zabbix_agentd        ./zabbix_agentd

if i check log:

cat /tmp/zabbix_agentd.log

 79515:20120916:140315.491 Starting Zabbix Agent. Zabbix 1.8.5 (revision 19050).
 79516:20120916:140315.492 agent #0 started [collector]
[B][COLOR="red"]zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory][/COLOR][/B]
 79517:20120916:140315.493 agent #1 started[listener]
 79518:20120916:140315.493 agent #2 started[listener]
 79519:20120916:140315.494 agent #3 started[listener]
 79520:20120916:140315.494 agent #4 started [active checks]
[B][COLOR="red"]zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory]
zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory]
zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory]
zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory]
zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory]
zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory]
zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory]
zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory]
zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory]
zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory]
zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory]
zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory]
zabbix_agentd [79516]: cannot open [/proc/stat] [No such file or directory][/COLOR][/B]

 81695:20120916:145150.186 Starting Zabbix Agent [x.x.local]. Zabbix 2.0.0 (revision 27675).
81696:20120916:145150.187 agent #0 started [collector]
[B][COLOR="red"]zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory[/COLOR][/B]
 81697:20120916:145150.187 agent #1 started[listener]
 81698:20120916:145150.188 agent #2 started[listener]
 81699:20120916:145150.189 agent #3 started[listener]
[B][COLOR="red"]zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory
zabbix_agentd [81696]: cannot open [/proc/stat]: [2] No such file or directory[/COLOR][/B]

And connection to the Zabbix agent from Zabbix server tell me:

Get value from agent failed: Cannot connect to [x.x.x.x:10050] [Interrupted system call]

Does anyone know something more about this issue and how to monitor ESXi 5.x hosts?

Thanks

[dima_dm]

how to monitor ESXi 5.x hosts?

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15691

[miovel]

Thank you for response. I have seen there is no option to monitor ESXi in way I am already using on ESX. Mentioned method in the thread is quite complicated so I down want to use it. Also iI am not sure if this will work also on ESXi 5.1.0 which has changed quite lot from ESXi v5.0.1.
What a pity that it doesnt work in same way as monitoring ESX hosts

[dima_dm]

Also iI am not sure if this will work also on ESXi 5.1.0 which has changed quite lot from ESXi v5.0.1.

It's will work because used standard protocol (WBEM, VMWare API) of monitoring ESX,ESXi.

[arlonbr]

Agente install.

Hello,

I need to know if there is someone who already tried monitor VMWare ESXi v5.x host usign Zabbix agent. I already use monitoring of ESX 4.x with Zabbix agent without any problem.

On ESXi v5.x is missing /proc/stat and if i try run Zabbix agent (v1.8.5, v2.0) i got following:

Thanks

which agent you installed in the ESXi server?

[Heilig]

I think that for Linux (I have not tested).