check_vmfs.sh - Check vmfs datastores through VMware VCLI

IS the check compatible with ESXi 6.0?
I am getting the following error
Error: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password.
when the password is completely right , since I can use it with vmware-cmd through vCLI 6 on the same nagios host (which is a prerequisite to make this check work)
My .txt file is in format:
IP root password

and I have 9 servers defined in it, tried them all in the check, all get the same error

check_vmfs doesn't reflect the results and I'm not sure where the problem lies


[root@monitoring1 admin]# grep -E -i ';check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC1' /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log | perl -pe 's/CRITICAL/\e[1;31;43m$&\e[0m/g; s/(\d+)/localtime($1)/e'
[Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 2016] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: prod-vspp-ESXi01;check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC1;WARNING;HARD;3;WARNING - /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC1 - total: 8191.75 Gb - used: 7456.31 Gb (91%)- free: 735.43 Gb (9%)
[Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 2016] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: prod-vspp-ESXi02;check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC1;WARNING;HARD;3;WARNING - /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC1 - total: 8191.75 Gb - used: 7456.31 Gb (91%)- free: 735.43 Gb (9%)
[Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 2016] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: prod-vspp-ESXi03;check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC1;CRITICAL;HARD;3;CRITICAL - /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC1 - total: 8191.75 Gb - used: 7822.53 Gb (95%)- free: 369.21 Gb (5%)
[Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 2016] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: prod-vspp-ESXi04;check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC1;WARNING;HARD;3;WARNING - /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC1 - total: 8191.75 Gb - used: 7456.31 Gb (91%)- free: 735.43 Gb (9%)
[Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 2016] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: prod-vspp-ESXi05;check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC1;WARNING;HARD;3;WARNING - /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC1 - total: 8191.75 Gb - used: 7456.31 Gb (91%)- free: 735.43 Gb (9%)
[Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 2016] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: prod-vspp-ESXi06;check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC1;WARNING;HARD;3;WARNING - /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC1 - total: 8191.75 Gb - used: 7191.70 Gb (87%)- free: 1000.04 Gb (13%)

[root@monitoring1 admin]# grep -E -i ';check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC2' /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log | perl -pe 's/CRITICAL/\e[1;31;43m$&\e[0m/g; s/(\d+)/localtime($1)/e'
[Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 2016] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: prod-vspp-ESXi01;check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC2;WARNING;HARD;3;WARNING - /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2 - total: 8191.75 Gb - used: 7567.78 Gb (92%)- free: 623.96 Gb (8%)
[Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 2016] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: prod-vspp-ESXi02;check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC2;WARNING;HARD;3;WARNING - /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2 - total: 8191.75 Gb - used: 7736.15 Gb (94%)- free: 455.59 Gb (6%)
[Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 2016] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: prod-vspp-ESXi03;check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC2;CRITICAL;HARD;3;CRITICAL - /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2 - total: 8191.75 Gb - used: 7859.84 Gb (95%)- free: 331.90 Gb (5%)
[Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 2016] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: prod-vspp-ESXi04;check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC2;WARNING;HARD;3;WARNING - /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2 - total: 8191.75 Gb - used: 7736.22 Gb (94%)- free: 455.52 Gb (6%)
[Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 2016] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: prod-vspp-ESXi05;check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC2;WARNING;HARD;3;WARNING - /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2 - total: 8191.75 Gb - used: 7567.81 Gb (92%)- free: 623.93 Gb (8%)
[Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 2016] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: prod-vspp-ESXi06;check_esxi_vmfs_prod-vspp-PvDC2;CRITICAL;HARD;3;CRITICAL - /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2 - total: 8191.75 Gb - used: 7859.84 Gb (95%)- free: 331.90 Gb (5%)

[root@monitoring1 admin]# ssh root@prod-vspp-esxi01 'df -h|grep -E "PvDC1|PvDC2"'
Password:
VMFS-5 8.0T 7.3T 735.4G 91% /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC1
VMFS-5 8.0T 7.4T 623.9G 92% /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2
[root@monitoring1 admin]# ssh root@prod-vspp-esxi02 'df -h|grep -E "PvDC1|PvDC2"'
Password:
VMFS-5 8.0T 7.3T 735.4G 91% /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC1
VMFS-5 8.0T 7.4T 623.9G 92% /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2
[root@monitoring1 admin]# ssh root@prod-vspp-esxi03 'df -h|grep -E "PvDC1|PvDC2"'
Password:
VMFS-5 8.0T 7.3T 735.4G 91% /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC1
VMFS-5 8.0T 7.4T 623.9G 92% /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2
[root@monitoring1 admin]# ssh root@prod-vspp-esxi04 'df -h|grep -E "PvDC1|PvDC2"'
Password:
VMFS-5 8.0T 7.3T 735.4G 91% /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC1
VMFS-5 8.0T 7.4T 623.9G 92% /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2
[root@monitoring1 admin]# ssh root@prod-vspp-esxi05 'df -h|grep -E "PvDC1|PvDC2"'
Password:
VMFS-5 8.0T 7.3T 735.4G 91% /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC1
VMFS-5 8.0T 7.4T 623.9G 92% /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2
[root@monitoring1 admin]# ssh root@prod-vspp-esxi06 'df -h|grep -E "PvDC1|PvDC2"'
Password:
VMFS-5 8.0T 7.3T 735.4G 91% /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC1
VMFS-5 8.0T 7.4T 623.9G 92% /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2

Also checked with v1.5

[root@monitoring1 admin]# check_vmfs_1.5/check_vmfs.sh -C /usr/local/nagios/libexec/vmware_esxi_conf.txt -S 172.17.166.13 -V /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2 -w 85 -c 95 -u Gb
CRITICAL - /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2 - total: 8191.75 Gb - used: 7859.84 Gb (95%)- free: 331.90 Gb (5%) | /vmfs/volumes/prod-vspp-PvDC2=7859.84Gb;6962.98;7782.16;;8191.75

Thank you!

https://communities.vmware.com/message/2169320#2169320

Here is solution if you got the error:
CRITICAL - Server version unavailable at 'https://vmgsa:443/sdk/vimService.wsdl' at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/VICommon.pm line 545.

Hi, first of all thanks for this plugin.
I have a problem, I tried to use it with some ESXi servers 5.5, if I try to check the datastores it returns "Server version unavailable" error.

===
[root@drakaris check_vmfs_1.4]# ./check_vmfs.sh -C ./check_vmfs.conf -S vmgsa -V datastore1 -w 80 -c 90
CRITICAL - Server version unavailable at 'https://vmgsa:443/sdk/vimService.wsdl' at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/VICommon.pm line 545.
===
where check_vmfs.conf have a line with hostname, username and password for the vmware server (vmgsa in the example).

Do you think it's possibile to update the plugin for working with same on the latest vmware esxi versions?

Another question, this plugin needs virtualcenter or works also with the free version of esxi?

Thanks

Tasslehoff Burrfoot

Hi,

I am really struggling to get this to work. I am getting the following error.

CRITICAL - /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_vmfs.sh: 161: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_vmfs.sh: --username: not found

Below are my configs...

define service{
use generic-service
host_name AIT-VM01
service_description Datastore1 Space
check_command check_vmfs.sh!vmware_esxi_conf.txt!10.10.10.6!/vmfs/volumes/datastore1!80!90!Gb
}

define command{
command_name check_vmfs.sh
command_line $USER1$/check_vmfs.sh -C ./$ARG1$ -S $ARG1$ -V $ARG2$ -w $ARG3$ -c $ARG4$ -u $ARG5$
}

I have got vmware_esxi_conf.txt in /usr/local/nagios/libexec. The contents of this file are below...

10.10.10.6 root password

I have installed all the dependencies and cannot get this to work, any ideas?

The script works great via CLI but when I can't seem to view the output on the Nagios Web Interface. I tried the above method that you suggested but that doesn't work either. All I get is "Critical - " nothing else no total, used or free info.

It is working fine excellent Job.. Can you please Upload to Monitor the CPU and Memory of ESX

How can I use this against a vCenter instead of using a host directly.

Could you write some more details please?

Great plugin!

I have just set up my nagios and finaly I have free overview of my esxi's datastores.

Thanks Javier

This script is fantastic !!! does the job.

I go through this tool and is very useful for verifying and monitor the VMFS usage on ESXi environments.

But how to use this plugin with nagios with so that it displays the data on Web interface.

I tried with couple of tricks but didn't succeed.