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Introduction

This plug-in allows you to monitor your vSphere environment from Icinga. It allows you to connect to individual ESXi hosts or centralised vCenter servers.

Example setup on Icinga 1:

Example performance graphs with Icinga 1 and PNP4Nagios

Road Map

The planned enhancements can be found here

Before you begin

Install the pyVmomi library using pip.

$ sudo pip install pyvmomi

Using this plug-in

There are two methods for configuring this plug-in on each Icinga version

Icinga 1

1. Using the pyvinga.py script in isolation and manually configuring everything
2. Using the vi_setup.py script in the icinga1-setup directory to have a scripted configuration.

Icinga 2

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