Description

This connector provides disk monitoring through the VMware ESX4i agent's VMware classes

Connector ID: VMwareESXiDisksStorage

This connector is superseded by:

• CpMgServNT
• DellOpenManage
• Director52Linux
• Director52ServeRAIDLinux
• Director5Linux
• Director61Linux
• HPInsightwbem
• ServerviewWBEM

This connector supersedes:

• VMwareESXiDisksIPMI

Target

Typical platform: VMware ESXi

Operating systems: Out-of-Band, Linux

Prerequisites

Leverages: WBEM

Technology and protocols: WBEM

Examples

hws HOSTNAME -t management -f VMwareESXiDisksStorage --wbem -u USER

hosts:
- host:
    hostname: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
    type: management
  selectedConnectors: [ VMwareESXiDisksStorage ] # Optional, to load only this connector
  wbem:
    protocol: https
    port: 5989
    username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
    password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using hws-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The VMware ESXi - Disks (VMware) 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: ^[34567] (regex)
• The WBEM query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root/cimv2
  • WQL Query: SELECT DeviceID,Caption,NumberOfBlocks,BlockSize FROM VMware_StorageExtent