Monitoring VMware 6.7 in Zabbix 4.4

Log in to VMware ESXi and get started

Create a user with read-only permissions

We find out the UUID of the VMware ESXi server, after changing the system settings

https://share.zabbix.com/virtualization/vmware/vmware-uuid-esxi-standalone

  1. Vsphere Advanced Settings, Config, Hostagent, plugins, solo, check “Config.HostAgent.plugins.solo.enableMob”
  2. Browse to https://esxi-ip/mob/?moid=ha-host&doPath=hardware.systemInfo
  3. Copy down value
  4. Uncheck as in step 1

 

Go to Zabbix server

Edit zabbix_server.conf, update StartVMwareCollectors value to more than 0 and restart zabbix-server.  For more details, refer to https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.0/manual/vm_monitoring#configuration

Add a new host to the Zabbix server using the following parameters

We check the result, the data will not appear immediately

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