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pludikovsky
PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 4:55 am 
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Hello,

We're evaluating the check_vmware plugin for use with one of our datacenters. However, it seems that custom defined alarms are not reported by the check.
Code:
#  perl check_vmware.pl --version
vSphere SDK for Perl version: 4.1
Script 'check_vmware.pl' version: 1.13
# perl check_vmware.pl --server x.x.x.x --username xxx --debug 2
Enter password: SIGCHLD
SIGCHLD

Starting.
Connecting
Connected
Server Time : 2011-06-29T15:45:07.223291Z
Report type requested is []
Base is ha-folder-root
Running state report
Checking alarms...
No alarms detected.
Disconnecting...
Exiting with status (0)
No alarms detected.
# perl --version

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux-thread-multi


The cluster sees 2 custom defined alarms via the vSphere client (both of the same type, checking the size of snapshots). Is there any chance these alarms can be monitored too?
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stevesh
PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:44 pm 
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This is supposed to monitor any alarms... it uses the VCentre API call to retrieve all alarms via the normal method and shouldnt require anything special to get custom ones.

I'll take a look at the latest API documentation to see if anything has changed, or if custom alarms now appear in a different location.

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stevesh
PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:49 pm 
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Checking the documentation shows that all alarms are still propagated to the triggeredAlarmState property; however the user needs to have appropriate permissions to view.

Is it possible that the user you are using for the Nagios plugin does not have rights to view the alarm states on the objects in question? Under 4.x there are many more layers of permissions control so this might be the case.

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