Complete Implementation – Good Documentation

Obviously a lot of work has gone into the implementation of this service check and the accompanying documentation. A qualified VMware and Nagios systems administrator will have no issue getting things up and running with relative ease.

In my case I am using a single Nagios server and a single VMA appliance (new for this purpose) to monitor two vCenter systems and the underlying clusters, hosts and guests.

I did initially have an issue in which some instances of the service check failed on one of the vCenter servers, but this was traced to a problem with the vCenter embedded database, and the issue “magically” resolved itself after a database rebuild.