VMware vCenter
Introduction
The vcenter-probe uses the VMware API to monitor VMware Virtual center hosts.
Features
- vCenter alarms
- Cluster status
- Hypervisor hosts
- Datastores
VMware guest monitoring
We offer a specific probe for VMware guest monitoring to retrieve even more in-depth metrics per virtual machine. See our VMware guest documentation for more information.
Probe configuration
Credentials
The VMware API requires a user account which is assigned the Read-only rol to access monitoring data on VMware vCenter appliance.
vCenter integrated with AD
When vCenter is integrated with Active Directory (AD), you will find a group in vCenter that has a corresponding group in AD.
Simply create a user with read-only permissions for your vCenter environment in AD and add it to the corresponding AD group. Your credentials for vCenter will be in the format of username@windows.domain.
vCenter standalone
When vCenter is not integrated with AD, you will create a new read-only user in your vSphere client and grant this account read-only access.
See the VMware documentation on how to setup a local @windows.domain account and how to grant this account read-only access.
The corresponding infrasonar.yaml [^1] section in this scenario:
vcenter:
config:
username: infrasonar@vsphere.local
password: "some_secure_passw0rd"