Re: 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.

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-Chris

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