Cheshire Cat Computing

I,

I used VMware ESX 3.0 and i need monitor it with nagios.
I install check_esx2 (2.4).

When i type this command:
./check_esx2 -N -H XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -C public -l CPU -w 90 -c 95

I received this error:
Error: No VMWare SNMP sub-agent running (vmware-snmpd)

I search for vmware-snmpd the daemon on the ESX machine but i don't find it.

Any idea ?
Thanks

On the ESX server, you start the vmware SNMP helper by using '/etc/init.d/vmware-snmpd start' as root on the service console. However, you should enable this in the vmware configuration screen. Read your VMWare administrator's guide to show how to enable SNMP support for VMWare.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

Ok

But the vmware-snmpd is not available on ESX 3.0. This daemon is present only on the ESX 2.X version.

OK... (I dont have ESX3, but I have been told that the check_esx works with it).

I suspect there is an equivalent under ESX3. You should be able to enable the ESX SNMP extensions somehow, check your Administrator's Guide for VMWare.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

Hi,
have you open the firewall ports on the esx server?


esxcfg-firewall -o 161,tcp,in,snmp
esxcfg-firewall -o 161,udp,in,snmp

This is going to be an ESX config issue - I know at least one person has this working with ESX 3, so I'm pretty sure that it can work - but since I don't have an ESX 3 server here I can't do anything to track down what the required config should be.

The 'No VMware SNMP sub-agent' message is caused when the script is unable to walk the vmware OID tree, either because

1) no response from the SNMP agent - not running?
2) the vmware snmp helper agent is not running
3) there is a firewall blocking communication
4) the community string is wrong
5) everything is too slow and times out
6) ... something else ...

Try getting version 2.4 of check_esx2 -- this gives slightly better help messages, and is better with v3 -- but I don't think this will solve the issue. If anyone out there can confirm it is working with ESX3, please post here and say what you needed to set up for the SNMP to work.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

Hi,

I am busy virtulising our domain controllers as well as our exchange server, at the moment we using Vshpere 4.0 are there any issuse wit this product?

Thanks in advanced.