VMware ESXi Monitor
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Authors:
Eric Enns
Matthias Kittl
Maintainers:
Eric Enns
Matthias Kittl
License:
GNU General Public License, Version 2
Name:
ZenPacks.community.VMwareESXiMonitor
More Information:
Link To More Docs:
Git Sources (For Cloning):
Applications Monitored:
VMware (ESXi)
VMware ESXi Monitor ZenPack
This ZenPack monitors general ESXi host and vm stats such as CPU, memory, and storage. Now you can watch and assure your virtual infrastructure with Zenoss.
Support
This ZenPack is developed by the Zenoss user community and supported via our online forums. Zenoss, Inc. does not provide direct support for this ZenPack.
Releases
Version 1.2- Download: Summary of changes: initial release: Requires VMWare Data Source ZenPack,Virtual Host Monitor ZenPack: Compatible with Zenoss Core 2.5.x, Zenoss Core 3.2.x
Version 2.0.3- Download: Summary of changes: Adds checks to ensure data structure exists before accessing value, prevents get_info from failing silently: Released on 2015/01/29: Compatible with Zenoss Core 4.2.x, Zenoss Core 5.0.x
Version 2.0.4- Download: Summary of changes: Added performance metrics for ESXi Host, added thresholds for CPU and Memory usage
Notice: You'll have to delete the existing Monitoring Templates (ESXiDatastore, ESXiHost, ESXiVM) when upgrading from a previous version of this ZenPack.
- Released on 2015/03/28
- Compatible with Zenoss Core 4.2.x, Zenoss Core 5.0.x
- Version 2.0.5- Download: Summary of changes: Fixed Error: "TypeError: a float is
- required"
- Released on 2015/04/17: Compatible with Zenoss Core 4.2.x, Zenoss Core 5.0.x
- Version 2.0.6- Download: Summary of changes: Fixed Error: "TypeError: not enough
- arguments for format string"
- Released on 2015/05/07: Compatible with Zenoss Core 4.2.x, Zenoss Core 5.0.x
Background
This ZenPack allows Zenoss to monitor VMware ESXi Hosts and VMs via the vSphere SDK for Perl. It creates the /Server/VMware/ESXi Device Class. All ESXi Hosts have to be added to this Device Class.
Zenoss 4.2.x Installation
Install the required perl packages:
yum -y install perl perl-XML-LibXML glibc.i686 e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-devel libuuid-devel libxml2-devel
Install the vSphere SDK for Perl:
Extract the archive (tar xzf VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-<version>.x86_64.tar.gz) Cd into the newly created directory (vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib) Run the installer (vmware-install.pl)
Follow the instructions in the Zenoss Admin Guide to install the ZenPack.
Zenoss 5+ Installation
Please follow the following instructions to install the vSphere SDK for Perl in the zenhub container.
Start a new shell in the running zenhub service and save the service instance with a new name:
serviced service shell -s VMware_vSphere_SDK -i zenhub bash
Install the required perl packages:
yum -y install perl perl-XML-LibXML perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-devel openssl-devel libxml2-devel
Remove the data cached by yum:
yum clean all
Downgrade the following two perl packages manually (this is required, because the vSphere SDK for Perl has not yet been officially released for CentOS 7):
Download "Net-HTTP-6.03.tar.gz" and "libwww-perl-6.03.tar.gz" Extract the archive (e.g. tar xzf Net-HTTP-6.03.tar.gz) Cd into the newly created directory (e.g. Net-HTTP-6.03) Run: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install
Install the vSphere SDK for Perl:
Extract the archive (tar xzf VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-<version>.x86_64.tar.gz) Cd into the newly created directory (vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib) Run the installer (vmware-install.pl)
Fix "length() used on @array (did you mean "scalar(@array)"?)" error:
Copy the following file into a temporary directory: "/usr/lib64/perl5/IO/Compress/Zlib/Extra.pm" Change the permission to give yourself write privileges (e.g. 644) Search for the following line: "for (my $ix = 0; $ix <= length(@$data) -1; $ix += 2)" replace it with: "for (my $ix = 0; $ix <= @$data -1; $ix += 2)" Change the permissions back (444) Copy the file back into the original directory
Complete the modification of the service instance:
Exit the shell Commit the changes you have made: "serviced snapshot commit VMware_vSphere_SDK"
Follow the instructions in the Zenoss Admin Guide to install the ZenPack.
zProperties
The ZenPack will add two zProperties:
- zVSphereUsername: Name of a User that has read-only access to the ESXi Host
- zVSpherePassword: The corresponding Password
