Counter Information objects

Counter/Information objects

These are the objects currently offered:

##Virtual Machine

Parameter	Counter/Info	Description
core	Info	Provides descriptive information on the VM (Notes, OS type, vCPU count, Memory).
status	Info	Provides status of VM (e.g. green, yellow, red, grey)
cpu.ready	Counter	Percentage of time that the virtual machine was ready but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU
cpu.usage	Counter	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval
mem.active	Counter	Amount of memory that is actively used as estimated by VMkernel based on recently touched memory pages
mem.shared	Counter	Amount of guest physical memory that is shared with other virtual machines relative to a single virtual machine or to all powered-on virtual machines on a host
mem.balloon	Counter	Amount of memory allocated by the virtual machine memory control driver (vmmemctl) which is installed with VMware Tools
datastore.io	Counter	Average number of read & write commands issued per second to the datastore during the collection interval
datastore.latency	Counter	The average time a read or write from the datastore takes
network.usage	Counter	Number of packets received and transmitted during the interval

Parameter	Counter/Info	Description
core	Info	Provides descriptive information on the Host(Model, CPU details, Cores, Logical Procs)
cpu.usage	Info	Provides CPU usage as a percentage of overall use
mem.usage	Info	Provides Memory usage a percentage of overall use

Parameter	Counter/Info	Description
status	Info	Provides status of Datastore (e.g. green, yellow, red, grey). This can be used as the check_command for a Datastore host object (instead of ping)
space	Info	Provides the used space of the Datastore

Parameter	Counter/Info	Description
status	Info	Provides status of Cluster (e.g. green, yellow, red, grey). This can be used as the check_command for a Cluster host object (instead of ping)