VMware ESX/ESXi Monitoring

Gain in-depth insights on CPU, memory, disk, datastore, and network of your ESX/ESXi servers. Add your VMware ESX/ESXi hosts for monitoring by configuring the following. You can also add your VMware datastores and resource pools for monitoring while adding ESX/ESXi hosts.

Prerequisites:

• Site24x7 On-Premise Poller

Add a VMware ESX/ESXi Monitor

1. Log into your Site24x7 account. 
2. Go to the Admin tab and select VMware ESX/ESXi Server (under Virtualization) in Add Monitor page.
3. Specify the following information to add the VMware ESX/ESXi Server monitor:
   • Display Name: Provide a display name to identify the VMware ESX/ESXi Server monitor.
   • ESX/ESXi Host Name or IP Address: Specify the IP address or domain Name for the ESX/ESXi host.
   • Port: Specify the designated port number of the managed host.
   • Username: Enter the user account for the system.
   • Password: Enter the credentials associated with your user account.
   • Check Frequency: Choose the required polling frequency from the options available in the drop down list.
   • Monitoring locations: Select the location profile from the drop-down list from where the ESX/ESXi can be monitored. Once installed the On-Premise Poller will be added as a location under the location profile. To configure location profile, See Location Profile. 
   • Monitor Groups: Associate the ESX/ESXi monitor with a monitor group. Choose an existing monitor group or create a new one. To create a new monitor group, read our product documentation.
   • Dependent on monitor: From the drop-down, select the dependent monitor you want. Site24x7 will suppress alerts for the configured ESX/ESXi monitor if the dependent monitor is already down.
     You can configure a dependent monitor on a monitor level and a monitor group level. To know more about alert suppression and monitor group level dependency configuration read our documentation.
4. Toggle yes or no to Discover and Auto-add resources. By enabling this, the resources running on this ESX/ESXi host will be discovered automatically and added as individual monitors for monitoring.
   
   • Virtual machines: Toggle Yesto enable monitoring virtual machines. 
     It is important to note that you can only add a Virtual Machine by discovering it via an ESX/ESXi host. The discovered VMs will be listed under VMware > Virtual Machine.
   • Exclude Virtual machine if its name contains: Specify the name of the VMs that need not be auto discovered and added for monitoring.
   • Datastores: Toggle Yes to enable monitoring datastores.
     
     To ensure complete monitoring of VMware datastores, make sure that you have enabled Datastore.Browse privileges for that particular VMware ESX/ESxi host credential.
   • Resource pool:Toggle Yes to enable monitoring for resource pools.
5. Specify the following details for Configuration Profiles:
   • Threshold and Availability: Select a threshold profile from the drop-down list or choose the default threshold set available and get notified when the resources cross the configured threshold and availability.
     To create a customized threshold and availability profile, refer Threshold and Availability.
   • Notification Profile: Choose a notification profile from the drop-down list or select the default profile available. Notification profile helps to configure when and who gets notified in case of downtime.
     Refer Notification Profile to create a customized notification profile.
   • User Alert Group: Select the user group that needs to be alerted during an outage.
     To add multiple users to a group, see User Groups.
   • Tags: Associate your monitor with predefined Tag(s) to help organize and manage your monitors creatively. Learn how to add Tags.
   • IT Automation: Select an automation to be executed when the VMware ESX/ESXi server is down / trouble / up / any status change / any attribute change. The defined action gets executed when there is a state change and selected user groups are alerted. To automate corrective actions on failure, refer IT Automation.
   • Third Party Integration: Associate your monitor with a pre-configured third-party service. It lets you push your monitor alarms to selected services and facilitate improved incident management.
     If you haven't setup any integrations yet, navigate across to ”Admin > Third Party Integration” to create one. Tell me more.
6. Click Save.

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