Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Preparing for VMware monitoring

To try out VMware support, we'll need the following:

• The IP address or hostname on which we have access to the VMware API
• The username for an account with permissions to retrieve the information
• The password for that account

First, the server must be compiled with VMware support. If you have installed from packages, this support most likely is included. If you installed from source, check whether the Zabbix server log file lists VMware monitoring as enabled:

VMware monitoring: YES 

When compiling from source, the following options are needed for VMware support:

• --with-libcurl
• --with-libxml2

As with several other features we've explored so far, the Zabbix server doesn't start any VMware-specific processes ...