Steve Shipway wrote: >> As we are currently consolidating hosts to VMWare i need some way to >> define reasonable parent/child relations ships in Nagios as well as >> defining host dependencies. >> > > This is a really awkward one. > > What we do here is to first define the guests as individual hosts for > monitoring, although we don't monitor CPU or Memory on them as the > standard plugins don't give meaningful data under vmware. > > Next we're using the check_esx2 plugin on the servers in the farm which > will alert for excessing virtual CPU, Ready, and Memory usage. > > Finally, we run a script regularly (daily) which probes the vmware > server and reconfigured the parent/child relationships for the vhosts vs > the esx servers. Not ideal - particularly when you have automigration > enabled - but better than nothing. > > Now we're going to ESX3 I'm considering defining a dummy object in > Nagios for the whole ESX farm. The guests become children of the ESX > Farm object, and the ESX farm object is a child of *all* the ESX > servers. The ESX farm host check is defined using check_summary over > the ESX servers, and contains another check_summary check for its only > service, although it could also hold the SNMP traps from the > VirtualCentre server (we have this as a separate Nagios object). This > setup will make more sense under ESX3, there the VC can automatically > restart a guest on a new ESX server if the ESX server currently hosting > it goes down. > Thanks, i think ill try creating a dummy object, i was not aware of the check_summary plugin, but it seems reasonable to rely on that for the farm status.
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