{"id":182,"date":"2012-10-24T12:40:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T10:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simplify-it.de\/WP\/?p=182"},"modified":"2012-10-24T12:40:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T10:40:29","slug":"nagios-scripting-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplify-it.de\/WP\/it-news-blog\/nagios-scripting-vmware\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagios &#8211; scripting VMware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New challenge &#8211; implement Nagios in an Enterprise layout<\/p>\n<p>Monitor VMware:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; coverage with OP5 perl plugin for Host\/VM\/VC<br \/>\n&#8211; missing VMware objects (VM diskspace &#8211; vCenter services &#8211; HA\/DRS status &#8211; \u00a0powered off VMs &#8211; VMtool status &#8211; VM snapshot status)<br \/>\n&#8211; missing Windows objects ( service state&#8230; &#8211; which u cover via powershell scripts)<\/p>\n<p>Beauty with this setup &#8211; you monitor the entire VMware\u00a0environment\u00a0almost agentless &#8211; so no need to install any agent on the VMs &#8211; just on the proxy and good idea to install on the vCenter server as well.<\/p>\n<p>Missing objects can be covered by powercli scripts, which are triggered from the Nagios server to be run on a Windows proxy. Have in mind to enable external arguments (allow_arguments).<\/p>\n<p>All scripts can be found in the internet &#8211; if u need some more\u00a0advice\u00a0or a bit of consulting &#8211; contact me for a quote<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New challenge &#8211; implement Nagios in an Enterprise layout Monitor VMware: &#8211; coverage with OP5 perl plugin for Host\/VM\/VC &#8211; missing VMware objects (VM diskspace &#8211; vCenter services &#8211; HA\/DRS status &#8211; \u00a0powered off VMs &#8211; VMtool status &#8211; VM &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplify-it.de\/WP\/it-news-blog\/nagios-scripting-vmware\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[28,29,30,25],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-news-blog","tag-nagios","tag-powercli","tag-powershell","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplify-it.de\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplify-it.de\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplify-it.de\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplify-it.de\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplify-it.de\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplify-it.de\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplify-it.de\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplify-it.de\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplify-it.de\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplify-it.de\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}