Can Zabbix monitor ESXi?

Note that the minimum required VMware vSphere version is 4.1, and I can confirm, from the first hand, that Zabbix works without problems with ESXi 6.0, ESXi 6.5, ESXi 6.7, ESXi 7.0 versions.

How do I monitor my VMWare in Zabbix?

Tutorial – Enable Zabbix Vmware Monitoring First, we need to edit the Zabbix server configuration file and enable the Vmware monitor feature. Locate the zabbix_server configuration file. Edit the configuration file. Here is the original file, before our configuration.

How do I add ESXi server to Zabbix?

How to configure monitoring Server VMWare ESXi on Zabbix

  1. Add host VMWare ESXi.
  2. Go to Configuration -> Click select Hosts -> Click Create host.

How do I use Zabbix monitoring?

How to Install Zabbix

  1. Step 1: Connect to SSH on the Monitoring Server.
  2. Step 2: Download the Zabbix Installation Files.
  3. Step 2: Install Zabbix Server.
  4. Step 3: Create the MySQL Database.
  5. Step 4: Import MySQL Data.
  6. Step 5: Update Database Information.
  7. Step 5: Start the Server.
  8. Step 6: Set Timezone and Restart Apache.

How do I enable SNMP on ESXi host?

Go to your ESXi host -> Configure -> Services -> SNMP Server. The service is stopped by default. Start it. Enable SSH access on the ESXi host and connect to it using any ssh client (I’m using Windows 10 built-in SSH client).

What is zabbix discovery?

Low-level discovery provides a way to automatically create items, triggers, and graphs for different elements on a device. For instance, Zabbix can automatically start monitoring file systems or network interfaces on a machine, without the need to create items for each file system or network interface manually.

What can you monitor with Zabbix?

Zabbix provides monitoring metrics, such as network utilization, CPU load and disk space consumption. The software monitors operations on Linux, Hewlett Packard Unix (HP-UX), Mac OS X, Solaris and other operating systems (OSes); however, Windows monitoring is only possible through agents.

Is Prometheus better than Zabbix?

Neither architecture is inherently better than the other, although some may consider Zabbix’s architecture older. Zabbix’s architecture lends itself better to hardware and device management; Prometheus is better for cloud services and SaaS.

What is SNMP in ESXi?

ESXi includes an SNMP agent that can send notifications (traps and informs) and receive GET, GETBULK, and GETNEXT requests.

How do I send ESXi logs to syslog server?

Configuring syslog on VMware ESX and ESXi servers

  1. Log in to your VMware vSphere Client.
  2. Select the host that manages your VMware inventory.
  3. Click the Configuration tab.
  4. From the Software pane, click Advanced Settings.
  5. In the navigation menu, click Syslog.
  6. Click OK to save the configuration.

How do I set up discovery on zabbix?

  1. > Action object. action.create. action.delete.
  2. > Correlation object. correlation.create. correlation.delete.
  3. > Dashboard object. dashboard.create.
  4. > Discovery rule object. drule.create.
  5. > Graph object. graph.create.
  6. > Graph prototype object. graphprototype.create.
  7. > Host object. host.create.
  8. > Host group object. hostgroup.create.