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8 Operación de plantilla de VMware
Overview
Zabbix includes a range of ready-to-use templates for virtual machine monitoring, designed for VMware vCenter and ESXi hypervisors. The available templates are contained in two separate template sets:
- VMware - uses UUID data for corresponding macros
- VMware FQDN - uses FQDN data for corresponding macros
The templates designed for monitoring VMware vCenter or ESXi hypervisors contain pre-configured low-level discovery rules along with various built-in checks for monitoring virtual installations.
For the correct functioning of the VMware FQDN template, each monitored virtual machine should have a unique OS name adhering to FQDN rules. Additionally, VMware Tools/Open Virtual Machine tools must be installed on every machine. If these prerequisites are met, using the VMware FQDN template is recommended. The VMware FQDN template has been available since Zabbix 5.2 with the introduction of the ability to create hosts with custom interfaces.
A classic VMware template is also available and can be used if FQDN requirements are unmet. However, the VMware template has a known issue. Hosts for discovered virtual machines are created with names that are saved in vCenter (for example, "VM1", "VM2", etc.). If Zabbix agent is installed on these hosts, and active Zabbix agent autoregistration is enabled, the autoregistration process will read host names as they were registered during launch (for example, "vm1.example.com", "vm2.example.com", etc.). This can lead to the creation of new hosts for existing virtual machines (since no name matches have been found), resulting in duplicate hosts with different names.
Please note:
- The template VMware Hypervisor can be manually linked to a host as well as used in discovery;
- The template VMware Guest should not be manually linked to a host and can only be used in discovery.
Configuración de macros del equipo
Para utilizar las comprobaciones simples de VMware, el equipo debe tener definidas las siguientes macros de usuario:
- {$VMWARE.URL}: URL del SDK del servicio VMware (vCenter o hipervisor ESXi) (https://servername/sdk)
- {$VMWARE.USERNAME}: nombre de usuario del servicio VMware
- {$VMWARE.PASSWORD}: contraseña del usuario del servicio VMware {$VMWARE.USERNAME}