Tag:"vmware" | LogicMonitor

New VMware modules dropped
Did anybody else notice the ~44 new and ~5 updated modules around VMware dropping in the last hour or so? Does anyone know how to implement these new modules? Since there was talk of making the instances into resources I don’t want to just bring them in without knowing how it’s going to mess with my device list (which is tightly bound to billing for us).
Anonymous
2 years ago Place Product Discussions
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Excluding VMware VMs from instance discovery
When we add a vCenter into Logic Monitor, the VMs in it’s managed clusters are discovered as instances of underneath datasources applied to the vCenter, like: VMware VM Status VMware VM Snapshots VMware VM Performance Sometimes there are VMs that we have no interest in monitoring, so we don’t want them to be picked up by these datasources. At the moment, we’re manually adding an Instance Group, putting those VMs in the group and then disabling alerts, which is quite a manual process. Ideally we’d like LM to not discover VMs that have had a specific tag/value applied to them in vCenter. I think we should be able to do this by modifying the Groovy script used for Active Discovery on these data sources, but I’m not sure how to go about that. Has anyone managed to do something similar? Dave
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Dave_Lee
2 years ago Place Product Discussions
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VM creation date info from Vsphere
Hi, I am trying to add an attribute forVM creation date on datasource:VMware_vSphere_VirtualMachinePerformance I tried to add below line in the Active Discovery script: 'auto.config.create_Date' : vmConfig?.createDate, But getting an error. Has anyone else already tried getting this property of the VM or knows a solution?
Manoj_Hegde
2 years ago Place LM Exchange
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VMWare Check Datastores for unusual files/file extensions.
I am looking to implement a some form of monitoring for when files on a datastore become renamed or appear with file extensions that are not part of a predefined list(.vmdk, .vmx, etc...). The 2 ways I am considering are via a config source or just a regular datasource and I am trying to weigh out the pros and cons of each. I don't think using SSH with a config source will work because our monitoring accounts are all read only and I'm not sure if that level of permissions includes SSH access. On the other hand a config source can check quickly and effectively where as using a datasource with Active Discovery is limited to 15 minutes if it were in fact wanting to discover new instances of files with abnormal file extensions. Can you implement a config source that uses the SDK like the legacy VMWare modules in lieu of SSH? Looks like you can. That might be the way to go. Looks like I would want to use "HostDatastoreBrowser" from the SDK. What would you guys do?
Shack
5 months ago Place Product Discussions
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VMware vCenter Event Log Monitoring
We would like the ability to generate alarm on events generated within the vSphere event log, Ireally can't believe this isn't in place already.
Jason_Schmitz
7 years ago Place Archive
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BrightGauge - Datasets
Besides the 19datasets currently available in BrightGauge will LogicMonitor be providing network, storage or VMware datasets in the near future?
Maverick
2 years ago Place Feature Requests
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VM Ware SRM Monitoring
Is anyone doing VMWare SRM monitoring? Typical alerts include replication errors, VM errors, datastores not correct, restore order not set, etc…
renodudley
2 years ago Place LM Exchange
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VMware_Status Datasource update
We were running into an issue where disks were not consolidating properly following our backup completing, we are using Veeam with VMware. Since this wasn't included our of the box I have updated the default datasource to include a consolidationNeeded graph and datapoint. consolidationNeeded - Whether any disk of the virtual machine requires consolidation. This can happen for example when a snapshot is deleted but its associated disk is not committed back to the base disk.(https://code.vmware.com/apis/358#/doc/vim.vm.RuntimeInfo.html) This can cause a problem with performance as it will require more IO and for database servers this can be damaging for high io solutions. Since I am not able to attach XML files, I have copied the exported code below. If you want to do this manually, you will need to modify theactive discovery script to the collector attributes script and then add the data point and graph. In the active discovery script make the following changes: In the props_hash def include a line for "'auto.runtime.consolidationNeeded' : vm?.runtime?.consolidationNeeded" make sure you include a comma to separate the values. def props_hash = ['auto.config.alternate_guest_os_Name': vm?.config?.alternateGuestName, 'auto.config.annotation' : vm?.config?.annotation, 'auto.config.firmware' : vm?.config?.firmware, 'auto.config.guest_os_full_Name' : vm?.config?.guestFullName, 'auto.config.guest_os_id' : vm?.config?.guestId, 'auto.config.managed_by' : vm?.config?.managedBy?.type ?: "false", 'auto.config.modified' : vm?.config?.modified?.getTime(), 'auto.config.template' : vm?.config?.template, 'auto.guest.guest_os_family' : vm?.guest?.guestFamily, 'auto.guest.guest_os_full_name' : vm?.guest?.guestFullName, 'auto.guest.guest_os_id' : vm?.guest?.guestId, 'auto.guest.hostname' : vm?.guest?.hostName, 'auto.guest.tools_version' : vm?.guest?.toolsVersion, 'auto.guest.tools_version_status' : vm?.guest?.toolsVersionStatus2, 'auto.hardware.memory_mb' : vm?.config?.hardware?.memoryMB ?: 0, 'auto.hardware.num_cpu' : vm?.config?.hardware?.numCPU ?: 0, 'auto.hardware.num_cores_per_socket' : vm?.config?.hardware?.numCoresPerSocket ?: 0, 'auto.hardware.num_virtual_disks' : vm?.summary?.config?.numVirtualDisks ?: 0, 'auto.hardware.num_ethernet_cards' : vm?.summary?.config?.numEthernetCards ?: 0, 'auto.resource_pool' : vm?.resourcePool?.name, 'auto.resource_pool_full_path' : resource_pool_array.reverse().join(' -> '), 'auto.snapshot_count' : vm?.layoutEx?.snapshot?.size() ?: 0, 'auto.cluster' : esxhost?.parent?.name, 'auto.cluster_full_path' : cluster_path_array.reverse().join(' -> '), 'auto.runtime.host' : esxhost?.name, 'auto.runtime.connection_state' : vm?.runtime?.connectionState, 'auto.runtime.power_state' : vm?.runtime?.powerState, 'auto.runtime.consolidationNeeded' : vm?.runtime?.consolidationNeeded] Test the script against a vcenter server to make sure you are getting a true or false response from a server. In thecollector attributes script make the following changes Create a consolidation_states def, this will allow us to translate the value of the boolean to a 0 or 1 def consolidation_states = [ 'false' : 0, 'true' : 1 ] In the Iteration of VMs section, add a line for the def consolidation_Needed value, this is where we are actually translating the value to 0 or 1 with a toString compare. // iterate over vms vms.each { vm -> // Get AD info def wildvalue = vm.MOR.val def power_state = power_states[vm?.runtime?.powerState?.val] def consolidation_Needed = consolidation_states[vm?.runtime?.consolidationNeeded?.toString()] Finally, at the end, create a println to make the value go to standard out // Print that data println wildvalue + ".PowerState=" + power_state println wildvalue + ".ConsolidationNeeded=" + consolidation_Needed Test the script against a vcenter server to make sure you are getting a 0 or 1 response from a server if you are getting a null something is misconfigured. Once you get that working it is just a simple matter of adding a datapoint and graph Datapoint graph
jrhoat
7 years ago Place Archive
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FYI: LM can trigger ESXi 6.5 hostd to crash
Hi, I just got done working with VMware support on an issue where our ESXi 6.5 hostd process would crash during a booting phase. We eventually traced it back to a bug in some vSAN code that LM monitoring is polling.. It doesn't matter if you're running vSAN in your environment or not. Our work around has been to disable host level monitoring in LM for ourESXi hosts for now and it's been stable ever since. The expected fix is scheduled for release in Q3 2018 from VMware.
Eric_Singer
7 years ago Place Archive
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vCenter Monitoring of Event Logs
Is it possible to monitor the vCenter event logs using LogicMonitor? We’d like to capture hostd crash events along with other events.
Maverick
2 years ago Place Feature Requests
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