Is installing NRPE on an ESXi for monitoring purpose a good idea?

Asked Feb 03 '17 at 16:35

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I am using Centreon to monitore our VMs.

I've also VM backups done on the ESXi (5.5.0) with ghettoVCB and sent to a NAS mounted on NFS.

Now I would like to monitore those backups with a home made script that would parse ghettoVCB logs and send the result to my monitoring server. $ So for that I want to install the NRPE daemon on the esxi in order to run that script from my monitoring server once a day.

Is that a good idea, knowing that nrpe is a daemon that would run everytime and consume resources and also security wise?

Any other idea to monitore the backups ?

Thanks!

asked Feb 03 '17 at 16:35

keegita gina

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Installing anything on esxi is a great way for vmware to refuse to honour your service contract – Tom O'Connor Feb 03 '17 at 20:08
Really? You mean we aren't supposed to install anything on an ESXi ? What other option do we have then ? – keegita gina Feb 06 '17 at 10:24
ESXi has a SNMP server built in. You use that. – Tom O'Connor Feb 06 '17 at 10:40
Okay thank you. trying to extend snmp to run custom scripts on esxi but there is no conf file snmpd.conf or snmp.conf on the ESXI, even though I enabled the snmp service. How do one configure snmp to run custom scrips on ESXI? That's another thread I guess. – keegita gina Feb 06 '17 at 13:57
You're very close to the edge of what's considered acceptable use of ESXi. – Tom O'Connor Feb 06 '17 at 15:07
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Okay I found a better idea: mount the backup destination in read only on my monitoring server and monitore the results from there. Thanks! ( How do I close this thread? :/) – keegita gina Feb 06 '17 at 16:24
I would recommend answering your own question. – Tom O'Connor Feb 06 '17 at 18:18

Is installing NRPE on an ESXi for monitoring purpose a good idea?

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