Monitoring VMware

After you have configured VMware in Zabbix, you would obviously like to know how to monitor your infrastructure. Zabbix made this quite easy by providing standard templates and low-level discovery. If you would like to know more about low-level discovery, then have a look at Chapter 9, Autodiscovery.

Getting ready

To be able to successfully perform the steps in this recipe, you need to have a Zabbix server and a VMware server installed with some hosts already configured on the VMware server. You also need to have finished the previous recipe, Configuring Zabbix for VMware.

How to do it…

After we have configured Zabbix for VMware monitoring, the only thing we need to have is some patience. Next we go to Monitoring | Latest data and we select our VMware server from the list. After some time, Zabbix will start to fill in the data.

After waiting for the VMware discovery of our vCenter, Zabbix will start to populate the information of hypervisor and our virtual machines. Latest data...