Hi all, I've recently spent some time again on thinking about our VMWare Infrastructure (ESX clusters) and its monitoring. I'd like to hear some opinions from the list, how others implemented the monitoring. Currently my setup is as follows: - 3 ESX clusters with 6 hosts each - 100 VMs per cluster My current approach: The first cluster for example is defined as host "essesx-cluster" with 6 services ESX01, ESX02, ESX03..... Those services are check_icmp checks on the IP of the service console of each ESX host. The hostcheck of the "essesx-cluster" host is then: check_cluster --service -w 1 -c 1 -d $SERVICESTATEID:essesx-cluster:ESX01$, $SERVICESTATEID:essesx-cluster:ESX02$,$SERVICESTATEID:essesx-cluster:ESX03$, $SERVICESTATEID:essesx-cluster:ESX04$,$SERVICESTATEID:essesx-cluster:ESX05$, $SERVICESTATEID:essesx-cluster:ESX06$ All VMs are childs of their corresponding cluster host. The ESX hosts itself are not monitored as hosts, just as services of the cluster. What do you think about that approach? Is it sophisticated or rather dumb? I have to admit that I am a bit clueless right now, as it looks quite weird. Does anyone see any problems with that appoach? /discuss regards Sascha -- Sascha Runschke Netzwerk- und Systemmanagement Telefon : +49 (201) 102-1879 Mobil : +49 (173) 5419665 Fax : +49 (201) 102-1102105 GFKL Financial Services AG Vorstand: Dr. Peter Jänsch (Vors.), Jürgen Baltes, Dr. Till Ergenzinger, Dr. Tom Haverkamp Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Georg F. Thoma Sitz: Limbecker Platz 1, 45127 Essen, Amtsgericht Essen, HRB 13522