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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Daniel,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We monitor our VM servers with Nagios but point to their IP addresses in the hosts.cfg. Since these don’t change and Nagios doesn’t care what VM host the server is running it
is not a problem. We make the network switch the parent, not the VMware host.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Martin T. Hugo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Network Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hilliard City Schools<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">614-921-7102 (Ph)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">614-921-7243 (Fax)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Daniel Ceola [mailto:Daniel.Ceola@occfiber.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 12, 2013 11:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nagios Users (nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a lot of host servers as VM’s on our ESXi infrastructure, managed with vCenter. We also use vSphere DRS to help keep the load on host systems balanced. Due to the DRS, our VM’s can sometimes move around from being on one host to
being on another w/o my knowledge beforehand. Does anyone know if there is any sort of plugin available for Nagios Core that would basically talk to my vCenter system and find out what VM’s are on which hosts, and automatically update that VM’s Parent directive
in the host definition?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Daniel Ceola<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">System Administrator
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:Daniel.Ceola@occfiber.com">Daniel.Ceola@occfiber.com</a>
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