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check_vmware3.pl

It checks the host and the virtual machines on a vmware esx server via the VMware perl API.
The status of a virtual machine is OK if its heartbeat is green and CRITICAL in any other case. This is the most reliable information you can get as far as we know.
It gives CPU and memory usage of the VMware server
And it also prints performance data of the guest: net I/O, disk I/O, CPU usage, memory usage

Warning

sorry, this is not realy lightwight. It pumps about 2MB from VMware Server to the checkhost on every run.
so maybe it is a good idea to perform the check on the VMware Server itself via check_by_ssh

get it on MonitoringExchange

check_vmware3.pl on Nagios Exchange

what do you need

Nagios
VMware Infrastructure (VI) Perl Toolkit (VMware-VIPerl-1-1.6.0-104313.i386.tar.gz or VMware-VIPerl-1.6.0-104313.x86_64.tar.gz)
maybe the patch for VICommon.pm
and perl of course
nothing else

Why is this better than a other check plugin?

one main difference to the check_esx3.pl from op5 is that we test the heartbeat status of the virtual machines.
second - you may define: check all configured vms exept those matching the regexp "test".
the plugin only depends on the API and do not need any other perl module.
the grapher templates are part of the package.

Example

nagios@nagioswiki.org:~/

./check_vmware3.pl --server 10.10.0.32 --username readonlyuser --password secret --protocol https --portnumber 8333 --host my.vmware.server.com --ignore '.' --ensure 'VPN'

Sample Nagios Look

The plugin will warn you if it cannot find the API.

Nagios will get critical if a virtual machine is missing or not running fine (bad) unless you defined to ignore it.

Help Output

nagios@nagioswiki.org:~/

$ ./check_vmware3.pl --help

Synopsis: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/NETWAYS/check_vmware3.pl OPTIONS 


Command-specific options:
   --ensure
      List of VM-Names (separated by comma, regexp possible) for which state must be green
   --host
      Name of the host
   --ignore
      List of VM-Names (separated by comma, regexp possible) to ignore if state not green
   --timeout
      Timeout in seconds
   --verboseVMs
      list VM names as plugin output
   --vmname
      one single VM to check - the other checks will be suppressed

Common VI options: 
   --config (variable VI_CONFIG)
      Location of the VI Perl configuration file
   --encoding (variable VI_ENCODING, default 'utf8')
      Encoding: utf8, cp936 (Simplified Chinese), iso-8859-1 (German), shiftjis (Japanese)
   --help
      Display usage information for the script
   --passthroughauth (variable VI_PASSTHROUGHAUTH)
      Attempt to use pass-through authentication
   --passthroughauthpackage (variable VI_PASSTHROUGHAUTHPACKAGE, default 'Negotiate')
      Pass-through authentication negotiation package
   --password (variable VI_PASSWORD)
      Password
   --portnumber (variable VI_PORTNUMBER)
      Port used to connect to server
   --protocol (variable VI_PROTOCOL, default 'https')
      Protocol used to connect to server
   --savesessionfile (variable VI_SAVESESSIONFILE)
      File to save session ID/cookie to utilize
   --server (variable VI_SERVER, default 'localhost')
      VI server to connect to. Required if url is not present
   --servicepath (variable VI_SERVICEPATH, default '/sdk/webService')
      Service path used to connect to server
   --sessionfile (variable VI_SESSIONFILE)
      File containing session ID/cookie to utilize
   --url (variable VI_URL)
      VI SDK URL to connect to. Required if server is not present
   --username (variable VI_USERNAME)
      Username
   --verbose (variable VI_VERBOSE)
      Display additional debugging information
   --version
      Display version information for the script

Comments

on SUSE you may need to install Class::MethodMaker from CPAN if you get the following error message:

nagios@nagioswiki.org:~/

/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/auto/Class/MethodMaker/MethodMaker.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr

do it like this:

nagios@nagioswiki.org:~/

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Class::MethodMaker

you may need to apply the patch like this:

nagios@nagioswiki.org:~/

$ patch -p0 < VICommon.pm.patch

patch:

nagios@nagioswiki.org:~/

--- /root/vmware-viperl-distrib/lib/VMware/share/VMware/VICommon.pm	2008-07-13 05:39:51.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/VMware/VICommon.pm	2008-11-20 10:23:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -1796,7 +1796,7 @@
                   Carp::confess("Internal error: server returned '$val' as a boolean value");
                }
             } else {
-               $val = $child_class_name->deserialize($_);
+               $val = ($_->toString =~ /^<device xsi:type="VirtualMachineVMCIDevice">/) ? XML::LibXML::Element->new("void") : $child_class_name->deserialize($_);
             }
          } else {
             $val = $_->textContent;