[Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring
Hello all, I have a lot of host servers as VM's on our ESXi infrastructure, managed with vCenter. We also use vSphere DRS to help keep the load on host systems balanced. Due to the DRS, our VM's can sometimes move around from being on one host to being on another w/o my knowledge beforehand. Does anyone know if there is any sort of plugin available for Nagios Core that would basically talk to my vCenter system and find out what VM's are on which hosts, and automatically update that VM's Parent directive in the host definition? Daniel Ceola System Administrator daniel.ce...@occfiber.commailto:daniel.ce...@occfiber.com -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring
check_mk 1.2.3 should do that for you. There's a bit of pain migrating your config into check_mk's WATO, but IMHO it's worth it in the long run. http://mathias-kettner.com/check_mk.html It might be prudent to wait for the check_mk 1.2.3i2 before playing with it, though. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email: phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.ukmailto:phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk From: Daniel Ceola [mailto:daniel.ce...@occfiber.com] Sent: 12 August 2013 16:09 To: Nagios Users (nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Subject: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring Hello all, I have a lot of host servers as VM's on our ESXi infrastructure, managed with vCenter. We also use vSphere DRS to help keep the load on host systems balanced. Due to the DRS, our VM's can sometimes move around from being on one host to being on another w/o my knowledge beforehand. Does anyone know if there is any sort of plugin available for Nagios Core that would basically talk to my vCenter system and find out what VM's are on which hosts, and automatically update that VM's Parent directive in the host definition? Daniel Ceola System Administrator daniel.ce...@occfiber.commailto:daniel.ce...@occfiber.com Hoople Ltd, Registered in England and Wales No. 7556595 Registered office: Plough Lane, Hereford, HR4 0LE Any opinion expressed in this e-mail or any attached files are those of the individual and not necessarily those of Hoople Ltd. You should be aware that Hoople Ltd. monitors its email service. This e-mail and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. This communication may contain material protected by law from being passed on. If you are not the intended recipient and have received this e-mail in error, you are advised that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please contact the sender immediately and destroy all copies of it. -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring
Hi Daniel, We monitor our VM servers with Nagios but point to their IP addresses in the hosts.cfg. Since these don't change and Nagios doesn't care what VM host the server is running it is not a problem. We make the network switch the parent, not the VMware host. -- Martin T. Hugo Network Administrator Hilliard City Schools 614-921-7102 (Ph) 614-921-7243 (Fax) From: Daniel Ceola [mailto:daniel.ce...@occfiber.com] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 11:09 AM To: Nagios Users (nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Subject: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring Hello all, I have a lot of host servers as VM's on our ESXi infrastructure, managed with vCenter. We also use vSphere DRS to help keep the load on host systems balanced. Due to the DRS, our VM's can sometimes move around from being on one host to being on another w/o my knowledge beforehand. Does anyone know if there is any sort of plugin available for Nagios Core that would basically talk to my vCenter system and find out what VM's are on which hosts, and automatically update that VM's Parent directive in the host definition? Daniel Ceola System Administrator daniel.ce...@occfiber.commailto:daniel.ce...@occfiber.com -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring
On 12 Aug 2013 16:50, Daniel Ceola daniel.ce...@occfiber.com wrote: Hello all, I have a lot of host servers as VM’s on our ESXi infrastructure, managed with vCenter. We also use vSphere DRS to help keep the load on host systems balanced. Due to the DRS, our VM’s can sometimes move around from being on one host to being on another w/o my knowledge beforehand. Does anyone know if there is any sort of plugin available for Nagios Core that would basically talk to my vCenter system and find out what VM’s are on which hosts, and automatically update that VM’s Parent directive in the host definition? I specify all of the host servers as parents of the VM. I reckon that makes perfect sense, and it's dead easy to implement. -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring
I did that, but it made the map a complete mess of lines that I couldn't make out. Daniel Ceola System Administrator daniel.ce...@occfiber.commailto:daniel.ce...@occfiber.com From: Jim Avery [mailto:j...@jimavery.me.uk] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 3:26 PM To: nagios List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring On 12 Aug 2013 16:50, Daniel Ceola daniel.ce...@occfiber.commailto:daniel.ce...@occfiber.com wrote: Hello all, I have a lot of host servers as VM's on our ESXi infrastructure, managed with vCenter. We also use vSphere DRS to help keep the load on host systems balanced. Due to the DRS, our VM's can sometimes move around from being on one host to being on another w/o my knowledge beforehand. Does anyone know if there is any sort of plugin available for Nagios Core that would basically talk to my vCenter system and find out what VM's are on which hosts, and automatically update that VM's Parent directive in the host definition? I specify all of the host servers as parents of the VM. I reckon that makes perfect sense, and it's dead easy to implement. -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring
On 12 Aug 2013 21:49, Daniel Ceola daniel.ce...@occfiber.com wrote: I did that, but it made the map a complete mess of lines that I couldn’t make out. Yes. The map doesn't scale well. I haven't used it for some years now. -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring
On 8/12/2013 4:04 PM, Daniel Ceola wrote: I did that, but it made the map a complete mess of lines that I couldn't make out. Try check_cluster. Check_cluster aggregates the status of individual ESX hosts. The clusters here have three or four ESX hosts each. If one ESX host in the cluster is offline, my check_cluster returns a warning. If all but one are offline, I have it return a critical. At that point, the engineers have more important things to worry about than individual guests. I have a fake host for each cluster whose check_host_alive is the check_cluster command. The guest VMs on each cluster have the fake host set as their parent. The guests can move around all they want and I don't have to change anything. When the engineers change the clusters by adding or removing ESX hosts, all I have to do is add or remove one ESX host check and update the check_cluster command. I don't have to edit the list of parents for all the guest VMs, which is important, because we have more than a thousand of them. -- -Chris -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
[Nagios-users] Help With Nagios WMI
I've got my install of Nagios setup with the check_wmi_plus.pl script. I can
successfully call the script with manually entered parameters just fine and
query whatever I need to via WMI but I am having trouble getting that to
translate into anything in Nagios.
For example, I have the following defined as a command:
define command{
command_name check_win_disk
command_line $USER6$/check_wmi_plus.pl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -m checkdrivesize -u
$USER8$ -p $USER9$ -a $ARG1$ -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ $ARG4$ $ARG5$
}
and the following as a service:
define service{
use windows_service
service_description Disk Space
host_name host-name-here
check_command check_win_disk!.!75%
}
And that works as I expect. It reports the used/free space of all the local
disks with a warning at 75%. However anything I do try to add a critical
wanting at 85% results in Nagios throwing an error the next time the service
tries to query the disk space (NOT an error when Nagios tries to read the
config file).
Any ideas? Thanks!
Nathan
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[Nagios-users] Help With Nagios WMI
I've got my install of Nagios setup with the check_wmi_plus.pl script. I
can successfully call the script with manually entered parameters just fine
and query whatever I need to via WMI but I am having trouble getting that
to translate into anything in Nagios.
For example, I have the following defined as a command:
define command{
command_name check_win_disk
command_line $USER6$/check_wmi_plus.pl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -m checkdrivesize
-u $USER8$ -p $USER9$ -a $ARG1$ -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ $ARG4$ $ARG5$
}
and the following as a service:
define service{
use windows_service
service_description Disk Space
host_name host-name-here
check_command check_win_disk!.!75%
}
And that works as I expect. It reports the used/free space of all the
local disks with a warning at 75%. However anything I do try to add a
critical wanting at 85% results in Nagios throwing an error the next time
the service tries to query the disk space (NOT an error when Nagios tries
to read the config file).
Any ideas? Thanks!
Nathan
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[Nagios-users] Nagios check latency
Hi guys, My Nagios setup are having high service check latency. Check nagios latency result is 240 seconds! ./check_nagios_latency.sh -w 30 -c 60 CRITICAL: Latency at 240.183 seconds! Modification in my Nagios.cfg file is only as below. Other than this, is default. # MODIFIED admin_email=muhamad.f...@asia.xchanging.com admin_pager=muhamad.f...@asia.xchanging.com translate_passive_host_checks=1 log_event_handlers=0 use_large_installation_tweaks=1 enable_environment_macros=0 enable_embedded_perl=0 use_embedded_perl_implicitly=0 max_concurrent_checks=1600 service_perfdata_file_processing_command=process-service-perfdata-file-pnp-bulk host_perfdata_file_processing_command=process-host-perfdata-file-pnp-bulk service_perfdata_file_processing_interval=60 host_perfdata_file_processing_interval=60 status_update_interval=40 # /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -s /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg Nagios Core 3.5.0 Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad Last Modified: 03-15-2013 License: GPL Website: http://www.nagios.org Timing information on object configuration processing is listed below. You can use this information to see if precaching your object configuration would be useful. Object Config Source: Config files (uncached) OBJECT CONFIG PROCESSING TIMES (* = Potential for precache savings with -u option) -- Read: 0.415803 sec Resolve: 0.006900 sec * Recomb Contactgroups: 0.001862 sec * Recomb Hostgroups:3.819786 sec * Dup Services: 0.637380 sec * Recomb Servicegroups: 3.419804 sec * Duplicate:0.000417 sec * Inherit: 0.013748 sec * Recomb Contacts: 0.00 sec * Sort: 0.00 sec * Register: 0.616385 sec Free: 0.029930 sec TOTAL:8.962015 sec * = 7.899897 sec (88.15%) estimated savings RETENTION DATA TIMES -- Read and Process: 0.863815 sec TOTAL:0.863815 sec Timing information on configuration verification is listed below. CONFIG VERIFICATION TIMES (* = Potential for speedup with -x option) -- Object Relationships: 0.080360 sec Circular Paths: 0.001152 sec * Misc: 0.011244 sec TOTAL:0.092756 sec * = 0.001152 sec (1.2%) estimated savings EVENT SCHEDULING TIMES - Get service info:0.051265 sec Get host info info: 0.032301 sec Get service params: 0.10 sec Schedule service times: 0.002476 sec Schedule service events: 0.002514 sec Get host params: 0.00 sec Schedule host times: 0.000937 sec Schedule host events:0.001287 sec TOTAL: 0.090790 sec Projected scheduling information for host and service checks is listed below. This information assumes that you are going to start running Nagios with your current config files. HOST SCHEDULING INFORMATION --- Total hosts: 11753 Total scheduled hosts: 7 Host inter-check delay method: SMART Average host check interval: 300.00 sec Host inter-check delay: 42.86 sec Max host check spread: 30 min First scheduled check: Tue Aug 13 11:43:54 2013 Last scheduled check:Tue Aug 13 11:43:54 2013 SERVICE SCHEDULING INFORMATION --- Total services: 18662 Total scheduled services: 170 Service inter-check delay method: SMART Average service check interval: 535.76 sec Inter-check delay: 3.15 sec Interleave factor method: SMART Average services per host: 1.59 Service interleave factor: 1 Max service check spread: 30 min First scheduled check: Tue Aug 13 11:52:49 2013 Last scheduled check: Tue Aug 13 11:58:39 2013 CHECK PROCESSING INFORMATION Check result reaper interval: 10 sec Max concurrent service checks: 1600 PERFORMANCE SUGGESTIONS --- I have no suggestions - things look okay. Any advice will be much appreciated. Regards, Faiz CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message and any attachment are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it or any part of it in any form whatsoever. If you are not the intended recipient please telephone or e-mail the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system. attachment: Faiz.vcf-- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code
