[Nagiosplug-devel] Nagios and VMware

[Johannes Dagemark]

take a look at 
http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/op5plugins.git;a=blob_plain;f=check_esx3.pl;hb=HEAD

Cheers
Johannes

On 2010-12-20 16:14, Brian Schultz wrote:
>
> I've been giving the task of figuring out how to monitor our entire 
> VMware environment that's running vSphere 4.1. I've been playing 
> around with Nagios and so far I really like it's flexibility, but for 
> me that also means there is going to be a big learning curve because 
> it seems like in order to get exactly what I want, I'm also going to 
> have to learn Perl and write some plugins. I've been using the 
> check_esx plugin that's up on the exchange but it doesn't do 
> **exactly** what I'd like. I'd like to pull performance metrics from 
> vCenter because VMware specifies that as best practice. Also, it would 
> be nice if Nagios would automatically add any new hosts that are added 
> to the environment.
>
> Is there a plugin floating around out there that already addresses 
> these points and I just haven't come across it? How big of a task am I 
> undertaking here? Any words of advice or suggestions on how I should 
> tackle this?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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Johannes Dagemark
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