Description

This connector enables hardware monitoring for ESXi servers v4 and higher through the VMware CIM service.

This connector supersedes:

• VMwareESXi^[2]
• IpmiTool^[3]

Target

Typical platform: VMware ESXi

Operating systems: Out-Of-Band, Linux

Prerequisites

Leverages: WBEM

Technology and protocols: WBEM

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t management -c +VMwareESX4i --wbem -u USER

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: management
        selectConnectors: [ VMwareESX4i ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          wbem:
            protocol: https
            port: 5989
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The VMware ESXi 4.x connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The WBEM query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root/cimv2
  • WQL Query: SELECT MajorVersion FROM VMware_HypervisorSoftwareIdentity
  • Result contains: ^[1-9][0-9]\|[4-9] (regex)

Metrics