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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.

Deployment

The vCenter probe can easily be deployed using our appliance manager.

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.

The corresponding infrasonar.yaml 1 section when using for example infrasonar@vsphere.local as user id looks as follows:

vcenter:
  config:
    username: infrasonar@windows.domain
    password: "some_secure_passw0rd"

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"

Additional information

vcenter probe source code

  1. Passwords are encrypted on the appliance the moment the file is saved, see our credentials documentation ↩↩