LukeC Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 Hello, I am currently setting up Nagios Core and i can montior switches printers and windows servers fine, but how cna i get it to monitor my vmware hosts and Storage i only want simple checks such as Ping. If i can have CPU and Memory it will be a bonus.
theeggmaster Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 I'm by no means a Nagios expert, but I set up NagiosPi on a Raspberry Pi, and used NConf on there to set up pings on VM hosts, switches etc. Are you using NConf, or just Nagios Core?
pcstru Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 Hello, I am currently setting up Nagios Core and i can montior switches printers and windows servers fine, but how cna i get it to monitor my vmware hosts and Storage i only want simple checks such as Ping. If i can have CPU and Memory it will be a bonus. If you just want it to ping, just add it as a host. If you want to monitor services running on guests, you will need to install the appropriate client and configure a service check for the hosts. Typically you need to look at services and commands configuration files.
markwilfan Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 Check out Check_MK Makes nagios much easier to config
Blue_Cookeh Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 I know you've probably spent a lot of time on Nagios but can I suggest something a) easier and b) more up to date? LibreNMS I ditched Nagios for it about 6 months ago and haven't looked back. 2
markwilfan Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 I know you've probably spent a lot of time on Nagios but can I suggest something a) easier and b) more up to date? LibreNMS I ditched Nagios for it about 6 months ago and haven't looked back. oohhh shiney! *Runs away to spin up a new VM* Good find @Blue_Cookeh
FN-GM Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 I know you've probably spent a lot of time on Nagios but can I suggest something a) easier and b) more up to date? LibreNMS I ditched Nagios for it about 6 months ago and haven't looked back. Is this completely free? Thanks
LukeC Posted December 10, 2015 Author Posted December 10, 2015 im just downloading the vmdk now, you do get statisfaction fom nagios when its up and running though especially if you not from a nix background
cpjitservices Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 You can get PRTG free for 100 sensors. I'd recommend it any day. Very easy to setup and configure. With it being sensor based you can do a lot more than 'PING' a VM. 2
LukeC Posted December 10, 2015 Author Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) Would 1 port be classed as a sessor for PRTG? ----Edit---- Iv answered my own question - Yes Edited December 10, 2015 by LukeC
markwilfan Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 For other Hyper-V peeps, you'll need to convert the vmdk to a vhd. The vmdk is a virtualbox vmdk so... Install VirtualBox then cd %programfiles%\Oracle\VirtualBox vboxmanage clonehd "C:\tmp\file.vmdk" "C:\tmp\file.vhd" -format VHD Hope that helps ---- no credit accepted... pilfered the answer from here http://superuser.com/questions/483756/converting-a-vmdk-to-vhd 1
Blue_Cookeh Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 Is this completely free? Thanks Yes! It's a free fork of Observium.
pete Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 Is this completely free? Thanks Yeah, it's a fork of Observium (which has a free/paid version split - difference is paid gets features sooner). LibreNMS devs are more polite.
Blue_Cookeh Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 Yeah, it's a fork of Observium (which has a free/paid version split - difference is paid gets features sooner). LibreNMS devs are more polite. Oh how true. You can request features/report bugs/request device additions via their GitHub at https://github.com/librenms/librenms. I ended up liking it so much I started to contribute to it.
Davit2005 Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) You can get PRTG free for 100 sensors. I'd recommend it any day. Very easy to setup and configure. With it being sensor based you can do a lot more than 'PING' a VM. Another vote for PRTG, you can monitor a lot and I have not needed to install software on end devices. Give it a look the free license covers up to 100 devices I think. Edited December 10, 2015 by Davit2005
FN-GM Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 Give it a look the free license covers up to 100 devices I think. Its is a 100 sensors not 100 devices. 1
Davit2005 Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 Its is a 100 sensors not 100 devices. I knew it was 100 somethings, I stand corrected
FN-GM Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 I knew it was 100 somethings, I stand corrected I wish it was 100 devices!
cpjitservices Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 Or 100 Iced Mince pies, that'd would be outstanding.
SHimmer45 Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 nice that LibreNMS has got a plugin for Dell openmanage. as the Dell openmanage management console is horribly bloated
LukeC Posted December 10, 2015 Author Posted December 10, 2015 Im being thick but how can allow snmp on a windows server
Blue_Cookeh Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 Im being thick but how can allow snmp on a windows server As a client? Install SNMP via the Add Roles/Features Wizard and then configure it (the community name/allowed hosts) through Services.msc > SNMP Client > Properties. Make sure it's set to Automatically start. 1
danbuntu Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 plus one for check_mk Especially if installed with: https://labs.consol.de/nagios/omd-repository/index.html It becomes an apt-get install omd and your up and running.
LukeC Posted December 10, 2015 Author Posted December 10, 2015 How Can i customise the "network Map" so devices appear off the correct devices using Librenms
jonwitts Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 Hello, I am currently setting up Nagios Core and i can montior switches printers and windows servers fine, but how cna i get it to monitor my vmware hosts and Storage i only want simple checks such as Ping. If i can have CPU and Memory it will be a bonus. For simple checks use SNMP - you need to enable it on your VMWare hosts and then setup SNMP checks on nagios to query the hosts' CPU, RAM etc. If you want more in depth reports about the VMWare infrastructure then use the check_vmware_api.pl script from OP5... does the job for us! Jon
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