URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL

[basildane]

Zabbix 6.0.3 running on Ubuntu 20.04 server.
I am trying to monitor my vCenter 6.5.

I created an account [email protected] which is in the administrators group on vCenter.
{$VMWARE_URL} is set to https://myvCenter/sdk

I downloaded the CA certificates as per the instructions and ran dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates.
I restarted zabbix-server

I created a host with VMware FQDN.

But it doesn't populate any items, and it returns "URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL"

Any more suggestions?

[tfonias74]

Hello, just managed to make it work for standalone ESXi (not vcenter).

I didn't do anything regarding the certificates you mention.

My Host is like this:

Hostname: FQDN
Interface: Agent (IP of host+ DNS name, def port)
Templates: VMWare + VMWare Guest + VMWare Hypervisor
Macros: {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} + {$VMWARE.PASSWORD} + {$VMWARE.URL} + {$VMWARE.USERNAME}
UUID you need and can get via PowerCLI:

Get-View -ViewType HostSystem -Property Name,hardware.systeminfo | Select-Object Name,@{N="UUID";E={$_.hardware.systeminfo.uuid}}

Hope this helps.

[david_sf96]

Thank you, but I have a question: 'Where do you put the command that you mentioned before?' because I have tried to open a session using putty trying to connect to the ip address of my vcenter, I typed the command that you mentioned before and I get the following error :' Unknown command Get-View'. Do I have to download or install anything? Thank you

[david_sf96]

Thank you, but I have a question: 'Where do you put the command that you mentioned before?' because I have tried to open a session using putty trying to connect to the ip address of my vcenter, I typed the command that you mentioned before and I get the following error :' Unknown command Get-View'. Do I have to download or install anything? Thank you.

In my case, I have created on my vcenter a read-only user and in my zabbix I have the following macros in the same order:

{$PASSWORD}=>(Password of the read-only user)
{$SNMP_COMMUNITY}=>(community that I have configured)
{$SNMP_PORT}=>161(SNMP Port)
{$URL}=>https://(public ip of my vcenter)/sdk
{$USERNAME}=>(name of the read-only user)


I still get no response from the vcenter, so no lights are turned on

Is there anything that I am missing? How can I get the UUID? Because I have the problem that I mentioned above.


Notice that I have installed zabbix 4.4