VMware Monitoring With Nagios

Capabilities

Nagios provides the capabilities to monitor an assortment of metrics on the various VMware platforms including VMware Workstation, ESX Hosts, vSphere or vCenter Servers.  To monitor VMware systems in Nagios XI is as easy as running the VMware Wizard.

Benefits

Implementing effective virtualization monitoring with Nagios offers the following benefits:

• Increased server, services, and application availability
• Fast detection of server and operating system failures
• Fast detection of service and application failures
• Reduced deployment time
• Reduced administrative overhead
• Centralized configuration
• Ability to monitor the following Metrics

• • CPU Usage
  • Memory
  • Networking
  • Input / Output
  • Datastore usage
  • VM Status
  • Services
  • More…

Solutions

These Nagios solutions provide virtualization monitoring capabilities and benefits:

• Nagios XI
• Nagios Core

See Also

• SNMP Monitoring
• WMI Monitoring
• Agent Based Monitoring